LOCALE:...IAN.3PM(1)

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💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for Locale::Po4a::NewsDebian — that's the one, the module that flips NEWS.Debian documents back and forth between the file itself and PO files ✨ (iykyk, that's the whole vibe). This lil' page lives under the LOCALE:...IAN.3PM(1) manual, and it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So the whole po4a project — which stands for PO for anything, iconic name honestly — has one main character goal: making translations easier, and even more importantly, making the maintenance of translations easier, by using gettext tools in places where literally nobody expected them to show up, like documentation 🎀

Locale::Po4a::NewsDebian is the module that helps you translate NEWS.Debian files into other [human] languages 🌈 Those are the files where maintainers are supposed to write the important news about their package, so like, the tea on what changed. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ACCEPTED BY THIS MODULE ✨

  • NONE. — that's it. zero. nada. no options, no flags, nothing to configure. it's giving minimalist. 🦋

🔥 STATUS OF THIS MODULE 🔥

  • Not tested. 💀 yeah. that's the status. no cap.

A finer split of the entries may be preferable (search for /^ */, for example), but this version is more robust, and honestly NEWS.Debian entries aren't supposed to change that often, so it's fine fr fr 🧚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

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

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

The adaptation for po4a was done by:

 Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)

like, shoutout to Martin, we stan 🫶

 Copyright © 1996 Ian Jackson.
 Copyright © 2005 SPI, Inc.

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GPL v2.0 or later (see the COPYING file). ⭐

bestie reminder: it's free software under GPL v2.0 or later, so go read the COPYING file before you go redistributing anything, mwah 💋

okay that's the whole page, tysm for reading, and just so you know this lil' beauty is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-13 — slay, go translate some NEWS.Debian files now 🌸💜🎀

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