• Bug#991688: mention improved/added man page translations

    From Justin B Rye@21:1/5 to Helge Kreutzmann on Fri Jul 30 13:40:01 2021
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    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.

    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.

    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?"...
    --
    JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
    sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package

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