tags 665427 +pending
thanks
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:27:11PM -0400, David Prévot wrote:
>
> We noticed some tiny errors in the mke2fs.conf.5 and tune2fs.8 manpages
> while translating them in French (for the manpages-fr-extra package),
> please find attach a patch to address these issues.
Thanks, applied.
> BTW, we would be pleased if you could consider shipping the translated
> manpages directly in your package, or even better, help us to integrate
> them upstream.
The major concern that I have with including the translated manpages
is the synchronization problem that this implies. By definition the
translated man pages will always be out of sync, whenever I make
change; I can forsee this leading to endless bug reports, for which I
am not really able to act upon. Also, how do the man pages get
updated? Do I have to ask? Will someone be checking the e2fsprogs
git repository on a regular basis to find man page changes?
It just seems that including translated man pages is a support
nightmare.
The other question I have is if I include the French man pages in the
e2fsprogs package, then what if I start having to include German,
Spanish, Polish, Turkish, etc. Wouldn't this massively bloat the
e2fsprogs package? And if I have to create an e2fsprogs-fr-manpages,
and a e2fsrpogs-es-manpages, etc., again this start looking like a
huge amount of work just to give me more bug reports that I'm not
capable of handling (since I don't speak French.)
Regards,
- Ted
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