Package: www.debian.org
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Severity: wishlist
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Hi all
It would be nice to gettextize the Debian Social contract.
The web page of the Debian Social Contract is considered upstream
version for the package debian-doc, and the Debian flyers also produce a
LaTeX-based version of it.

We already have several translations in the wml format; if we gettextize
the document, the same .po file/strings could be used for the 1.0 and
the current version of the file, for the debian-doc-* packages, and for
the debian-flyers project.

I didn't look too much on how to do it but probably po4a-gettextize and
po4a can help on this.

If this works, we could use the same procedure to gettextize other
foundation documents as the Debian Constitution, Diversity Statement,
CoC, or other that shouldn't change much in time, and we'd like to show
in different formats and languages in an easy way.

Kind regards,

Hi Laura e.a.,

Op Thu, 4 Apr 2019 08:28:53 +0200 schreef Laura Arjona Reina:

~$ po4a-gettextize --help-format

just taught me it supports both wml and DocBook XML.  It looks doable.

Excellent plan.  The Debian FAQ is another document which has translations, but
never got gettextize'd.  Otoh: I am not really sure about what would be best to
do with it; it very much shows its age and lack of maintenance :(

Anyway, yes, gettextizing the Social Contract would be a very useful thing to
do.

Bye,

Joost (biting his tongue and not committing himself to anything)