Hello Justin, On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:27:25PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > The man pages for nonenglish speaking users have been substantially > > improved and extended. Please add a text along the following lines: > > > > Presumably as a subheading under 2.2 "What's new in the > distribution?", though I think those items might work better if we > moved "2.2.8. Kernel support for exFAT" and any further additions such > as this one to be above "2.2.7. News from Debian Med Blend", which > almost deserves a separate section 2.3 of its own. > > > The documentation (man pages) for several projects like systemd, util > > linux, Openssh and mutt and several languages (new or extendd), e.g. > > french, spanish, makedonain have been substantially extended and/or > > added. > > The man pages... for these projects... and languages... have been > extended? Now you've got me imagining man pages for languages.
Yes, this is not perfectly worded, thanks for spotting and improving.
> The documentation in man page format for several projects such as
> systemd, util-linux, OpenSSH, and Mutt has received added or
> extended translations for a number of languages, including French,
> Spanish, and Macedonian.
>
> > Please install manpages-nn (where nn is your language code) to
> > benefit from the improvements. During the lifetime of bullseye backports
> > of further improvements / translations will be provided within the
> > backports archive, possibly also new languages.
>
> I don't think we can use -nn as a meaningless metasyntactic variable,
> (it's the code for Nynorsk), but -xx is free. I'm going to lazily
> assume that we can't use <systemitem role="package"> markup on
> something that isn't really a packagename.
I thought "xx" had some uninteded side meaning, that's why I chose
"nn", which does not work correctly either. If this is no problem,
please do use "xx"
> To benefit from these improvements please
> install manpages-xx (where xx is your language code). During the
> lifetime of bullseye, further added or improved translations will be
> provided via the backports archive, possibly along with new languages.
>
> Oh, hang on, here comes another version...
>
> Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote
> < The manual pages for several packages like systemd, util-linux, openssh and
> < mutt in several languages like French, Spanish and Macedonian have been
> < substantially improved. Please install manpages-nn (where nn is your
> < preferred natural language code) to enjoy this.
>
> Reapplying some of those suggested changes:
>
> The manual pages for several projects such as systemd, util-linux,
> OpenSSH, and Mutt in a number of languages, including French, Spanish,
> and Macedonian, have been substantially improved. To benefit from
> this, please install manpages-xx (where xx is the code for your
> preferred natural language).
>
> (I'm avoiding calling openssh a package.)
>
> This version's short enough that we might consider including it in the
> introductory section for 2.2 "What's new in the distribution?"...
I'm fine with the update, even though it misses the fact that I did
(for buster) and will be (for bullseye) provide updates as translators
translate more pages and paragraphs.
Greetings
Helge
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