1. NAME

Locale::Po4a::NewsDebian - convert NEWS.Debian documents from/to PO files

2. DESCRIPTION

The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation.

Locale::Po4a::NewsDebian is a module to help the translation of the NEWS.Debian files into other [human] languages. Those files are where maintainer are supposed to write the important news about their package.

3. OPTIONS ACCEPTED BY THIS MODULE

NONE.

4. STATUS OF THIS MODULE

Not tested.

A finer split of the entries may be preferable (search for /^ */, for example), but this version is more robust and NEWS.Debian entries are not supposed to change that often.

5. AUTHORS

This module is loosely inspired from /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian, which is:

Copyright (C) 1996 Ian Jackson. This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.

The adaptation for po4a was done by:

Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)

6. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 1996 by Ian Jackson. Copyright 2005 by SPI, inc.

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GPL (see the COPYING file).