Bug#381559: French man translation update

[Thomas Huriaux]

Hi,

Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14/08/2006):
> Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > Please update file "fr.po" with file in this bug.
> > I assume that by "update" you mean "replace".

Yes.

> > BTW what is the point in using gettext for a man page?  Seems like a lot of
> > pointless bloat.
> 
> 
> Being up-to-date.
> 
> The main problem with translated man pages with the classical method
> is that they're always outdated.
> 
> By using software like po4a, one can guarantee that the translated man
> page is always complete. If the PO file is outdated, the outdated
> parts will be kept in English in the generated "translated" man
> page.....
> 
> Of course, when a given treshold of "outdateness" is reached (usually
> 80%), the translated man page is not generated anymore.

I would add that PO files are much more convenient for translators than
original manpages.

> What I'm unsure of is: does pppconfig use po4a for its man pages?
> 
> The fact that you, John, are asking these questions makes me think
> that it doesn't....but in that case, why is there a PO directory in
> the man/ directory.

It does (see #278062), however, the French manpage is not installed.
John, could you please apply the attached patch and build-depends on
po4a (>= 0.23) instead of po4a (>= 0.18.1)? The build-depends is for the
--rm-translations switch in the clean target.

Cheers,

-- 
Thomas Huriaux

--- rules.orig  2006-08-14 17:01:56.000000000 +0200
+++ rules       2006-08-14 17:03:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -25,13 +25,6 @@
          msgfmt -o po/$$F.mo po/$$F.po; \
        done
 
-       for FILE in man/po/*.po; do LANG=$$(basename $$FILE .po); \
-       LANGUAGES="$$LANGUAGES $$LANG"; \
-       done; \
-       for F in $${LANGUAGES}; do \
-         msgfmt -o man/po/$$F.mo man/po/$$F.po; \
-       done
-
        touch build-stamp
 
 clean:
@@ -42,8 +35,7 @@
        # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
        #-$(MAKE) clean
        rm -f po/*.mo
-       po4a man/po4a.cfg
-       rm man/pppconfig.*.8
+       po4a --rm-translations man/po4a.cfg
        dh_clean
 
 install: install-stamp
@@ -75,7 +67,7 @@
        dh_installmenu --noscripts
        dh_installcron --noscripts
 #      dh_installmanpages
-       dh_installman man/pppconfig.8
+       dh_installman man/pppconfig.8 man/pppconfig.fr.8
        dh_installchangelogs 
        cp 0dns-up debian/pppconfig/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/
        cp 0dns-down debian/pppconfig/etc/ppp/ip-down.d/

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