
KEEPING UP TO DATE
------------------

The "Securing Debian Manual" is a large document. Keeping translations
up-to-date can be difficult but there are two ways in which we've
tried to help translators:

  1.- The Manual has been splitted into multiple files to make it easier for
  translators to work with small files and also track when a given section of
  the document is changed.

  2.- The Manual supports the "po4a" tools which make it possible to manage
  the translation of this document using standard gettext tools

Translators should work using gettext. This document describes how it should
be used for this document.

If you need further assistance, please ask in the debian-doc mailing list. You
can also contact the mailing lists of fellow Debian translators. Full
list available here: https://lists.debian.org/i18n.html


Using PO4a
----------

This is the mechanism to be used for translations. All languages which were
formerly using another system were migrated to it.  The standard build tools
create a "POT" file. This file can be loaded in standard translation tools
(such as gedit, ktranslator, poedit, kbabel, etc..) and used to translate the
document, paragraph by paragraph.

Once you have a PO file with a partial translation, you can send it to the
document maintainer to add it as a new translation.

Keeping up-to-date with changes in the manual is easy: the build tools will
update the PO files and either:

  - Add new content as new "strings" that require translation

  - Mark old content that has been modified in the English version as "fuzzy"
    in the PO file

Please note that when a translation has "fuzzy" or "untranslated" content, the
original English content will be shown when the document is compiled and
provided in the website or in the packages.

For more information on gettext read:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Introduction.html



TRANSLATOR's LIST
-----------------

This is the list of the translators that currently active with this
document (just so nobody steps on somebody else's shoes):
If you do not see advances/updates in a given language
try to contact them and the debian translation team
(debian-l10n-<language>_AT_lists.debian.org).

Keep in mind that these are the people that said "can I translate it to X"
and I said "ok go ahead". It does not mean that they will get the job
done.

Translators for:

- Japanese:
(current version available 2.4)
	Oohara Yuma <oohara_AT_libra.interq.or.jp> (he is the first who started
	 translating this HOWTO, in january 2002)

- Spanish:
(current version available 2.3)
	Manuel Movilla Conchado <mmovilla_AT_modotexto.com>, April 2004
	Jaime Robles <jaime_AT_kde.org> and Javier Fernández-Sanguino, June 2003
	(previously) Héctor García Álvarez <hector_AT_scouts-es.org> 2 April 2002. 
	Translation is done also by Igor Támara Patiño <igor_AT_tamarapatino.com>

- Italian: 
(current version available 2.97)
	Stefano Canepa <sc_AT_linux.it> June 2003
	(previously) Ferdinando Ferranti <zappagalattica_AT_inwind.it>
	(previously) Tommaso Moroni <tommaso.m_AT_tiscalinet.it> 11 June 2002

- German: 
(current version available is 3.8)
	Simon Brandmair <sbrandmair@gmx.net> March 2005,
	(previously) Alexander Schmehl <alexander_AT_schmehl.info> 25 June 2003

- Russian:
(current version available 1.1)
	ilgiz kalmetev <i.kalmetev_AT_mts.bashtelecom.ru> 21 March 2002

- Brazilian Portuguese:  
(current version available 3.1)
	Philipe Gaspar <philipe@debian-ba.org> and  <philipegaspar_AT_gmail.com>, 12 March 2005
        Gleydson Mazioli da Silva <gleydson@debian.org>, 11 March 2005
	(previously) Alex Risicato Fagundes <alex.risicato_AT_uol.com.br> 21 March 2002
	(previously) Michelle Ribeiro <michelle_AT_focalinux.org> 10 October 2002
	(previously) André Luís Lopes <andrelop_AT_ig.com.br> 26 December 2002

- French: 
(current version available is generated with po4a)
	David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> 21 June 2012
        (previously) Simon Valiquette <v.simon@ieee.org>, 8 October 2006
        (previously) Frédéric Bothamy <frederic.bothamy_AT_free.fr>
            14 October 2004 
        (previously) Pierre Machard <pmachard_AT_tuxfamily.org>
        (previously) ASSAD Arnaud <arnaud_AT_cruncher.underlands.org>  
            26 March 2002

- Simplified Chinese: etony <etony@tom.com>, 11 march 2005
(current version available is 3.2)

- Swedish:  Erik Johansson <fl_AT_erp.nu> 17 April 2002
(not yet available)

- Catalan: Pau Montero Pares <pau_AT_hades.udg.es> 17 April 2002
(not yet available)


-- Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@debian.org> 
Sun May 13 10:34:54 CEST 2018


