There is no guide on how to author documentation for new national-language programs. Each ebuild does it in it's own way: france, japan, debian: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d/sys-process/fcron/fcron-3.1.2-r2.ebuild#L168-L174 https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d/dev-util/debhelper/debhelper-9.20150628.ebuild#L55-L69 I propose to implement a new helper class man-i18n.eclass and add all that cycles there. But the most important piece - is the documentation for authors of new programs, how they should name their man files in their native languages. Reproducible: Always
You could post your proposal on the gentoo-dev mailing list. That's where we discuss new eclasses.
Assigning to base-system, since they would be the likely maintainers of your proposed eclass.
Ben already maintains the l10n eclass so he may be interested in this one as well.
you mean i10n (localization), not i18n (internationalization). we have a unified format already for users (you set LINGUAS), but leave it up to developers to manage IUSE however they want in their ebuild. wrt man category naming, there's already a standard, and that is beyond Gentoo. in that regard, both ebuilds you highlight are doing the same thing. so what exactly is it you expect man-i10n.eclass (not man-i18n) to do ?
