Re: hurd-ja.texi

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:43:38PM +0900, mihi~star wrote:
> Some miss-transrations are fixed. All commented original
> descriptions are removed, and be much smaller size. [79KB]
> It is still on the same URL. 
> http://members.fortunecity.com/childstar/ as hurd_ja.tar.gz
> See, if you are interested in. 

Thanks. Unfortunately, still no progress on our side on this issue, sorry.
 
> I add much elder version which known as The GNU Hurd Interface 
> Manual. We know that it has been obsoleted, but it explains 
> the atomic (and deprecated) Hurd functions, like conch, Shared 
> I/O etc. 

Do you have a link to the english original? I am not sure if I know about
it.

> >                        This is the first translation, so we will need some
> > time to sort out how we manage multi language documentation. There are
> > various issues, like storing, building and keeping up-to-date.
> 
> Ah... 
> I wish only if files which I transrated for myself could be 
> good things for the others. 
> The situation for whom are interestead in the Hurd to be able 
> to find out nothing more than few documents in their language, 
> is sad. 

No wonder, it's not easy to find things in any language ;)
Some people have announced to write docs or extend existing docs, but little
came out of it.
 
> I think to be packed with the distribution of the Hurd is 
> best for it. Or separated package is better. 
> I may be to try to make out debianized package of it. Still 
> I have no skills of doing so, however. ^^;

The problem is not as much the packaging for Debian. It starts with how to
organize the source tree, so that it will be scalable when more translations
come. And how will we manage updates to the documentation when they appear?
Can you do some research on how other GNU projects manage this? OKUJI
Yoshinori and Jeff posted some useful hints where to look for this
information, it would be nice if you could pursue this track.

You don't need to make a Debian package out of it. I can include it in the
next Debian package without it being a part of the official source. I just
have to remember it.

Thanks,
Marcus

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