Hello Alma,
Am Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 06:37:06PM +0200 schrieb Alma Madeleine:
> > Secondly, your bug report relates to "1.17~pre1-2" which is currently
> > in experimental, and translations follow unstable, not experimental[1].
> 
> @Helge Before reporting to Debian BTS, I updated zutils as much as I can to 
> ensure that the bug still exists. I could downgrade and re-test, but this 
> would re-expose an unrelated bug, which is fixed only in 1.17~pre1-1.

This is highly appreciated, I'm simply referring to the fact that for
translations, experimental is not considered.

> > Finally, you can always access the English version:
> > LC_ALL=C man zutils
> > should give you the original man page.
> 
> $ LC_ALL=C man zutils
> No manual entry for zutils
> 
> You probably mean `LC_ALL=C man zgrep`.

Yes, sorry for my oversight.

> > [1] I can explain you the flow from changes in the original man page
> >      to the delivery of the translation into Debian Unstable, if you
> >      want, but maybe off bug …
> 
> Feel free if you think this would serve a future contributor who would try to 
> improve the current situation.
> (As for me, these years, I'm unlikely to be able to offer fixes.)

I already sent you something in private e-mail, feel free to share or
to use.

If you are further interested in translating, feel free to join
[email protected] or for German translation in particular
[email protected]

> > Alma, the only possible way to resolve this is to convince both gzip and 
> > zutils to start maintaining translations themselves. If both agree, then 
> > the current translations from manpages-.. (de, fr, ...) could be move there 
> > and this situation is resolved.
> 
> For today, I'm out of words :-), but, perhaps, someone else could step up and 
> try to convince the folks …

Sure. Simply let me (as upstream) know in time, so we can arrange the
handover, once the infrastructure is ready.

Greetings

        Helge

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