This was intended for being crossposted to -devel and -i18n but I finally forgot to add -devel. Please followup to -i18n if you don't mind.
----- Forwarded message from Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:54:42 +0100 From: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Packages not using po-debconf - more active actions to come X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/3487 Bringin the power of gettext to debconf (namely "po-debconf") has been by far one of the major improvements in Debian's i18n infrastructure over last years (it appeared a few weeks after woody's release and entered unstable on Oct 1st 2002). Nearly all, if not all, translators agree that maintaining translations for packages which do NOT use po-debconf is a real pain and nearly impossible. This is why a huge effort was put to have packages which use debconf switch their templates files to the "new" po-debconf style, which allows translators to handle their work with the familiar GNU gettext tools. We are now left with 102 packages which do not use po-debconf. Most often these packages have no translation for their templates, or translations which are highly outdated, making them useless. Most often they are not very actively maintained, or even orphaned. Sometimes, their maintainers simply do not care. Martin Quinson, Michel Grentzinger, myself, Andr� Luis Lopes and a few other translators have reported bugs against these packages, suggesting they switch to the "new" system, most often providing them with a patch. This is now time for action...:-). Similarly to what was done with longstanding pending translations, I will start a "NMU campaign" targeting these packages. This campaign will be made with the same care for respecting maintainers work and gently interact with them (this has proven efficient for old pending translations). We will of course use this opportunity for adding some translations to these packages..:-) Of course, help on that matter is very welcomed (Luk, Martin, others...). Please find below the alphabetical list of the relevant packages (main, then contrib, then non-free). I have not yet looked over the BTS for giving the bug numbers for "Please switch to po-debconf" bug reports. This is still work to do. The real work will probably not start before early or mid-March...and, of course, not interfering with the release process will be in the priorities. Package list: am-utils anthy asterisk-chan-misdn blootbot boa bottlerocket chdrv cricket cxref ddclient ddt debian-edu-config delo diald dict-gcide diffmon discover dvipdfmx efingerd ez-ipupdate fcron filterproxy freenet6 freetds ftape ftape-tools ftpwatch fvwm-shell gcl gclcvs gdm gidentd haskell-mode hearse hunglish hybserv ifplugd ispell-fi jove joystick kerberos-configs laptop-netconf libapache-sessionx-perl libdbd-sqlite-perl libmail-bulkmail-perl libroxen-imho libsafe lids-2.4 links-ssl localeconf lowmem lsh lukemftpd mailgraph mason masqmail mdctl miscfiles mlmmj mod-mono moobot moviemate mped nagat ndtpd netkit-base nn ntop php4-pecl-ps php4-ps prelude-nids printbill python-popy radioclk razzle schoolbell suck tripwire usb-discover waproamd webcalendar x-symbol xsp zephyr zope-docfindereverywhere zope-loginmanager zope-zshell Contrib packages: acl-installer ccc cfal cfalrtl cpml cxml cxx daemontools-installer libots lw-per-installer lw-pro-installer lw-pro-installer-43 quake2-data Non-free packages: nttcp qmail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
