On Friday 11 May 2007, Martin Schulze wrote:
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.
the maintainers of coreutils dont seem to be of the normal GNU [closed] mindset, so if a good solution was submitted to them, i'm pretty sure they'd include it -mike