Package: nmap Version: 4.00 Priority: wishlist Tags: l10n With the new reference Guide being made available in Nmap, a huge translation effort has been done by translation teams all over the world. As a consequence it is now translated to ten different languages: Chinese, Croatian, French, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak and Spanish.
All these translations are available in upstream's website (http://www.insecure.org/nmap/docs.html) in HTML format, but the XML sources and converted nroff manpages are also published at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/man-xlate/ Upstream has decided not to include the manpages in the sources so that packages don't have to bear the burden of working with XML (or generating proper code automatically). However, not having the manpages available for users to read online is, IMHO, a step backwards. Many upstream packages such as 'login', or 'passwd' already include the translated manpages and I think that Nmap should not be an exception. As for the concerns of manpages taking up disk space (each translation in nroff format 'weights' 150K), users that don't desire the manpages in languages other than their own can (and do) use 'localepurge'. Lamont, if you are not willing to package those manpages please say so and I will try to work in an 'nmap-doc' package that includes the translations of the reference guide as well as some other documentation available upstream which is not included in the sources. (In this case, maybe 'nmap' could suggest or recommend: 'nmap-doc') Regards Javier PS: BTW, this is different request from 181759 since manpages are no longer available in the upstream package (maybe #181759 should be closed?)
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