Bug#438676: hex-a-hop: Switch to po4a for man page translation

[Jens Seidel]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:58:04PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:49:57PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:00:58PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > the po file and saw that you removed
> > > all "\-". I left one in (for purpose, though I am not 100% sure if it
> > > is right) and now "msgfmt --statistics -o /dev/null " complains:
> > 
> > No, not I changed \- to - but po4a. But this is OK as the generated
> > manpage will contain \-. So all is OK.
> 
> Looking at your description for \- from below (thanks!) this behaviour
> of po4a is broken, or at least suboptimal. I understand, that

Right. Can you please file a bug? Thanks.

> hex-a-hop should contain minus signs (for pasting into a shell, as
> explaind), but after the name in the "NAME" section, this should
> definitly be a hyphen. Should we replace the "-" by "\(hy" as
> suggested by the documentation? If so, this should happend rather
> soonish, as some non-latin languages might need to translate this as
> well.

Did so already. My lintian does not report anything, probably the Etch
version is too old. Nevertheless I hope the old warnings (which my
sponsor sent me) vanished now.

> though looking at my time table, I am
> probably rather tight this weekend.

I too. I tried today to coat my appartment but failed and will do it
tomorrow :-)

Jens