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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Ivo Timmermans wrote on [email protected]: > Ideally, the Dutch (and other) manpages should be distributed together > with the upstream sources. Fileutils for example should install its > translated manpages itself. Indeed. I started looking at how to implement such a thing. Currently, the GNU tools use help2man by Brendan O'Dea to convert the stuff binaries give when invoked with --help to a manpage. help2man supports english only; therefore all alternative --help texts, included in .po files, do _not_ get converted to manpages, and only an english manpage gets installed. I believe the best thing to do would be to internationalize help2man. Once that is done, GNU packages could provide a hook to install manpages in other languages. Brendan, do you think it would be a good idea to internationalize help2man? Bye, Joost -- Joost van Baal . . heart http://debian.org/ . work http://logreport.org/ . home http://mdcc.cx/
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