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ffmpeg: Internationalisation / Localisation of manpages

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Markus Hiereth <translation@hiereth.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ffmpeg: Internationalisation / Localisation of manpages

Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:08:11 +0200

Package: ffmpeg
Version: 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I recently installed ffmpeg and used the manpages in the package as an 
introduction. Perhaps, some users of ffmeg would appreciate reading 
these manpages in their mother tongue.

A precondition for efficiency in the working field of translation / 
localisation, to the texi-files (like ffmpeg.texi) which are precursors 
of the manpages, respective message catalogue templates (pot-Files) 
should be available.

I've done translations within the German translation team and I am 
convinced that I would be able to convert such files from the texi into 
the groff format which is accepted by the po4a tools which have 
pot-files as output. 

But, in any case, internationalisation an localisation are step that 
need a common approach of maintainers and translators.

Best regards
Markus

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libavcodec58    7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libavdevice58   7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libavfilter7    7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libavformat58   7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libavresample4  7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libavutil56     7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libc6           2.28-10
ii  libpostproc55   7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libsdl2-2.0-0   2.0.9+dfsg1-1
ii  libswresample3  7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libswscale5     7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1

ffmpeg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ffmpeg suggests:
pn  ffmpeg-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 986640@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>

To: Markus Hiereth <translation@hiereth.de>, 986640@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#986640: ffmpeg: Internationalisation / Localisation of manpages

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 21:39:49 +0200

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On 2021-04-08 17:08:11 +0200, Markus Hiereth wrote:
> Package: ffmpeg
> Version: 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I recently installed ffmpeg and used the manpages in the package as an 
> introduction. Perhaps, some users of ffmeg would appreciate reading 
> these manpages in their mother tongue.
> 
> A precondition for efficiency in the working field of translation / 
> localisation, to the texi-files (like ffmpeg.texi) which are precursors 
> of the manpages, respective message catalogue templates (pot-Files) 
> should be available.
> 
> I've done translations within the German translation team and I am 
> convinced that I would be able to convert such files from the texi into 
> the groff format which is accepted by the po4a tools which have 
> pot-files as output. 
> 
> But, in any case, internationalisation an localisation are step that 
> need a common approach of maintainers and translators.

This change would ideally be implemented upstream so that also the
translations are kept up to date on each new upstream release.

Cheers

> 
> Best regards
> Markus
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 10.8
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
> ii  libavcodec58    7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libavdevice58   7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libavfilter7    7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libavformat58   7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libavresample4  7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libavutil56     7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libc6           2.28-10
> ii  libpostproc55   7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libsdl2-2.0-0   2.0.9+dfsg1-1
> ii  libswresample3  7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii  libswscale5     7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> 
> ffmpeg recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages ffmpeg suggests:
> pn  ffmpeg-doc  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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Message #17 received at 986640@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Markus Hiereth <post@hiereth.de>

To: 986640@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bugreport for ffmpeg project Bug#986640: ffmpeg: Internationalisation / Localisation of manpages

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 11:07:57 +0200

Hello,

Sebastian Ramacher schrieb am  8. April 2021 um 21:39

> This change would ideally be implemented upstream so that also the
> translations are kept up to date on each new upstream release.

report has been transmitted, see https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/9174

I'm going to wait what happens

Cheers
Markus

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