Re: emdebian-rootfs 2.0.2: Please translate the package emdebian-rootfs

2009-08-18 Thread Américo Monteiro
Hi A Domingo 16 Agosto 2009 17:17:06 Neil Williams você escreveu: > Dear Debian I18N people, > > I would like to know if some of you would be interested in translating > the emdebian-rootfs manpages. (See recent discussion on debian-devel and > changes in Policy 3.8.3) > > emdebian-rootfs manpages

po4a 0.36.5: Please translate debconf PO for the package po4a

2009-08-18 Thread Nekral
Dear Debian I18N people, I would like to know if some of you would be interested in translating po4a. po4a already includes af.po ar.po bn.po ca.po cs.po de.po eo.po es.po et.po eu.po fr.po he.po hr.po id.po it.po ja.po kn.po ko.po ku.po nb.po nl.po oc.po pl.po pt.po pt_BR.po ru.po sl.po sv.po

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian (was: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages)

2009-08-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:21:38PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >>> >> >> It's only unambiguous if you know the convention being adopted /is/ >> ISO-8601. In an ideal world, we could have a standardised date format >> which the man program can transform into the date representation of >> the u

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian (was: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages)

2009-08-18 Thread Nicolas François
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:13:20PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > I, for example, use the date format '+%d %b %Y' (01 Aug 2009). The > > manual pages are human readable documentation. I think that nicely > > readable dates should be preferred here. > > This seems to falsely

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian (was: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages)

2009-08-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
It's only unambiguous if you know the convention being adopted /is/ ISO-8601. In an ideal world, we could have a standardised date format which the man program can transform into the date representation of the user's locale thus satisfying all requirements. ??? Thats what ISO-8601 is. There

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian (was: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages)

2009-08-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:13:20PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:01:34PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > I assume we expect man pages to conform to the conventions in > > > ‘man-pages(7)’. > > (I've now been disabused of that assumption.) > > > I

Recommendations for man pages in Debian (was: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages)

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Finney
Roger Leigh writes: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:01:34PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > I assume we expect man pages to conform to the conventions in > > ‘man-pages(7)’. (I've now been disabused of that assumption.) > I'm not sure we can have that expectation. If you look at > groff_man(7), it sp

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:01:34PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > gregor herrmann writes: > > > An interesting question is how to detect outdated translated manpages; > > According to ‘man-pages(7)’, the TH command in the man page should have > the date of the latest version of the document: > >

Soon to come: review for tftp-hpa debconf templates

2009-08-18 Thread Christian Perrier
The debconf templates for this package recently changed or were added. As a consequence, the Debian English localization team is proposing a complete review to the maintainer. When that review starts, another notice will be sent as a followup to this mail, announcing the intent of one of the Debi