[bug #68352] [mm] ships non-English (Swedish) localized man page

Update of bug #68352 (group groff):

                Category:                 General => Macro package mm
                  Status:                    None => Rejected
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed
                 Summary: Localized (swedish) man page shipped by groff itself
=> [mm] ships non-English (Swedish) localized man page

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Hi Helge,

> Currently, the man page translations for groff are shipped by manpages-l10n.
> 
> By chance I noticed that groff upstream ships one localized man page, i.e.
> the Swedish /usr/share/man/sv/man7/groff_mmse.7

> Is this deliberately shipped by you instead of manpages-l10n?

Yes.  It's deliberate, as an example of how to document a territorial
localization extension to the _groff mm_ package.  We've provided this man
page for decades.  It came in with the rest of _groff mm_, contributed by
Jörgen Hägg, of Lund, Sweden.

We document these facts in _groff_mm_(7).  (The path names used below
correspond to my local installation that I use for testing _groff_.)


   Localization
     groff mm is designed to be easily localized.  For languages other
     than English, strings that can appear in output are collected in
     the file /home/branden/groff-1.24.1/share/groff/1.24.1/tmac/xx
     .tmac, where xx is an ISO 639 two‐letter language identifier.
     Localization packages should be loaded after mm; for example, you
     might format a Swedish mm document with the command “groff -mm
     -msv”.

     This package can also be localized by site or territory; for
     example, /home/branden/groff-1.24.1/share/groff/1.24.1/tmac/mse
     .tmac illustrates how to adapt the output to a national standard
     using its ISO 3166 territory code.  Such a package can define a
     string that causes a macro file /home/branden/groff-1.24.1/share/
     groff/1.24.1/tmac/mm/territory_locale to be loaded at package
     initialization.  If this mechanism is not used, /home/branden/
     groff-1.24.1/share/groff/1.24.1/tmac/mm/locale is loaded instead.
     No diagnostic is produced if these files do not exist.


Closing as rejected; _groff_ ships this file deliberately, and it has no
English-language counterpart.


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