Helge, [Adding CC debian-init-divers...@chiark.greenend.org.uk]
Thanks for this. On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 05:39:20PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > In Debian we have the situation that some man pages are shipped by > several packages. This is fine for the english versions, as there the > alternatives mechanism takes care of this. > > For translated man pages this is not possible (at least currently), so > as manpages-l10n we have to decide which upstream to follow. > > Until now we chose System-V over Systemd. However, this bug report > showed that this causes confusion and I will ask manpage-l10n upstream > to switch Debian to Systemd as well. I see that manpage-l10n upstream switching to the default init makes sense for the majority. > Since all other distributions we support already use the Systemd > version, this means the translations we currently have we vanish for > Sysv-Init users if nothing else happens. (#3 below) > > I can propose three courses of action, in the order of my preference: > > 1. Sysv core adopts po4a and includes the translation framework as > well as the translations (see below for the overview). I will > provide you help on this (in January), probably Mario (the upstream > maintainer of manpage-l10n) might give you some help as well. Then > the man pages will keep up to date (see rationale in 2) and more > translators / languages can be easily integrated, if translators > pop up. Indeed, to me, this seems the cleanest solution in the long run. Thanks for the offer of help. Mark
