[Traduc] Section 1 pages to disappear from man-pages

[Alain PORTAL]

Le Friday 11 May 2007 08:03:53 Martin Schulze, vous avez écrit :

> > Michael, we have to find mainteners who accept to release man pages
> > against the info pages...
>
> As long as they're old and unmaintained, they're useless.

Sure

> If you can, start a gnu-manpages package that automatically converts
> commonly used GNU info pages into manpages.  Do this automatically,
> so that the pages are maintained.  They can then be a source for
> translations.

This is a good idea, unfortunately, I can't, I'm not a good programer.
More than one year ago, I tried to convert manually core-utils info pages in 
man pages format. I stopped because there is really to much work.

> Speaking of translations, it should be no problem for translated manpages
> packages (such as manpages-fr) to include section 1 manpages, even if they
> are not included in man-pages but only in the proper source packages from
> the GNU project.
>
> > Michael, are you sure you can't find mainteners for these man pages?
>
> What about you?

I really don't have time enough for a such work.


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