man pages

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 19:44 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 07:24 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> The fr/es/pt_BR translations aren't built at all now but considering how
> totally out of date those are it's not much of a loss.
Having tried to add the fr translations, these prove to be broken.

Therefore, I'd propose to dump all of the translations.

>  We can add them
> back if somebody provides updates to them someday.
Did you have a look into apt-0.6.xx? They changed the source file format
from sgml to something else (I haven't check what kind of xml it is).

So, one of the next steps would be to decide on how to proceed with the
man-pages.

IMO, the only viable alternative would be to
a) completely decouple from Debian
or
b) converge to Debian apt-0.6.x

In case of a) another question would be to decide on if using manually
written man-pages or continuing to use generated ones.
I think using manually written, apt-rpm specific man-pages would be the
easiest approach.

Ralf