Dear translators, the manpages-l10n project [1] hosts man page translations of the util-linux tools [2] for some years. Because this external approach has some disadvantages, the .po files will be moved to the GNU Translation project soon. Besides the conversion of the source files from *.roff to asciidoc, the localization using po4a [3] has been enabled in util-linux itself. A translation template is already available from [4] (will still be moved to another location in the project tree, probably po-man/, see [5]).
To mention, in manpage-l10n we have .po files for util-linux man pages in German, French, Spanish and Polish. I'm already working on the import of the existing files. This will need at least a few weeks, maybe months. Because util-linux v2.37 will be released soon and the template will then be available from a newly to be created TP domain: Please don't start with the translation into the mentioned languages, to avoid double work! I will send the prepared .po files to you or your mailing lists once I'm finished with the import. Of course, translators of other languages can start as usual. The early publication of the template is only to give translators of other languages as much time as possible for their work. A util-linux tarball *including* translated man pages will not be released before the import has been finished, this means, possibly during the lifecycle of util-linux 2.37 (in one of the v2.37.x bugfix releases), or even later, with v2.38 in autumn this year. Otherwise it would be too difficult to avoid file conflicts in distribution packages. In manpages-l10n, we need either to keep all affected .po files or remove them all in once. If we would try to remove only some files partially, it would be almost impossible to consider all imaginable file conflicts. That's why we postpone the activation in util-linux for the time being. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n [2] https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux [3] https://po4a.org/ [4] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karelzak/util-linux/master/man-common/util-linux-man.pot [5] https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/1271 Best Regards, Mario