Bug#378899: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#378899: passwd: [Intl:de] German man page out of sync

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Hello Tomasz,
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Tomasz K??oczko wrote:
> Dnia 19-07-2006, ??ro o godzinie 16:55 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann
> napisa??(a):
> > The german man page for passwd is out of sync, most notably regarding
> > the options (but I like the german layout much more in the synopsis),
> > e.g. -f, -g, -s are mentioned in the german version, but not in the
> > english original (and looking at passwd --help, they are not supported
> > either[1]).=20
>=20
> Methodology for case like this is:
> - first update english man page. In this case man/passwd.1.xml
>   because man/passwd.1 is generated from this file which is also
>   reference resource for generate translated version in other language
>   using XML -> xml2po -> .po file -> translated XML files -> roff
>   translated man pages infrastructure,

What ist the exact location of the current man page?

> To all man pages translators: please do not dumbly translate en to ->
> <foo> language. If you will see something (in your opinion) badly formed
> in en man page please fix this before finish translation and/or if you
> have any doubts please ask on [email protected] or
> [email protected] list.

This is how I translate the Debian web page as well, first fix the
original and then update the translation, so this procedure is fine
with me.

Greetings

           Helge

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