Hello Mark, On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 07:25:16PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > Thanks. I was expecting this after #1001908 and your contribution to sysvinit > upstream. > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:45:47PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > For the benefit of Sysvinit using Debian users, it would be great if > > you could enable the translations of the man pages during package > > build; > > I have had a quick look and I think the upstream support for this is still > incomplete. Shouldn't there be a rule for building translated manpages in > man/Makefile?
I did not yet check the details, I just had a quick look. I can check
more in detail in the weekend.
> > My request:
> > ===========
> > The only solution I can imagine is the Alternatives system, so we
> > identify which man pages conflict and both manpages-l10n and sysvinit
> > establish alternatives for those translations.
>
> The other possibility might be dpkg-diverts. Perhaps that depends on how many
> conflicts there actually are/will be. I will try to quantify that more
> accurately.
That is an interesting idea. Than I wait for your analysis, thanks.
Greetings
Helge
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