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.