Package: debhelper Version: 13.11.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n X-Debbugs-Cc: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de>
I'm the Debian maintainer for manpages-l10n. This package carries
thounds of man pages for various languages. As in the english
original, man pages are known under various names and .so links are
present. Upstream converts this .so links to a small text file
(callled links.txt) which would be handy for dh_link(1). This
file contains all known so links.
Depending on the translator's work, man pages might appear or vanish
(if they are not translated enough, see po4a(1) for details).
Therefore, creating and maintaining static .links files for dh_link is
not an option. Even creating the file with some helper code before the
build is not possible - only after building the pages I know if the
translation (i.e. the source file for dh_link) is there or not (for
this language).
Upstreams links.txt is the "complete set", i.e. in
case *all* man pages would be translated, this would be the .links
file (maybe with some slight massaging to add the build path).
(Ideally the file name for dh_link would not be hardcoded).
However, if I provide this list to dh_link then *all* links are
created, even if the man page is not present (not build), creating
dangling symlinks.
Therefore it would be great if I could provide dh_link (or
dh_installman) with this file and only those links are set where the
source file actually exists.
Possibly this could also be resolved differently, I noticed #971039
and #1006939 which are adressing similiar (albeit slightly different)
issues; thus I took Marc in CC.
Until this is implemented, I'm looking how to do this myself in
manpages-l10n.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii autotools-dev 20220109.1
ii dh-autoreconf 20
ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.13.0-2
ii dpkg 1.21.12
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.12
ii dwz 0.14+20220924-2
ii file 1:5.41-4
ii libdebhelper-perl 13.11.1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.12
ii man-db 2.11.1-1
ii perl 5.36.0-6
ii po-debconf 1.0.21+nmu1
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 2.202204
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