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[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:06 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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 totally out of date those are it's not much of a loss.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.
Ping? Any opinions, any decisions, any consensus?

Ralf