On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:39:47 +0100 Christian Perrier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: kinect-audio-setup > Version: N/A > Severity: normal > > Dear Debian maintainer, > > Hello, Hi, [...] > The debian-l10n-english team will now start a review, on our own > initiative. It will be conducted through this bug report. > > > Suggestions for future debconf templates review > ------------------------------------------------ > > 1) Getting debconf templates reviewed > -------------------------------------- > > The Debian i18n contributors have developed a set of suggestions for > the writing style of debconf templates, to give them an overall > consistency all around Debian. These writing style suggestions are > explained in the Developers Reference. Lintian also warns about common > writing style concerns. > > Maintainers are welcome when they ask for a review of debconf templates > and/or packages descriptions on [email protected]. > It is of course not needed to wait for someone (such as me right me) > proposing you such a review. > This is a manual step, right? Isn't there a "podebconf-report-po" option to ease writing a mail to ask for a review of the template? [...] > 2) Call for new translations > ---------------------------- > > As soon as the templates have been reviewed, you can ask Debian > translators for new translations: > > Just go to your package's build tree and use: > > $ podebconf-report-po --call > > This will propose you a generic mail which is to be sent to > [email protected] and call for new translations. > So now I should wait for your review before calling for translations, right? [...] > 3) Always call for translation updates before uploading > ------------------------------------------------------- > > (of course only when you change the debconf templates!) > > If your package already includes debconf translations (ie *.po files > in debian/po), please consider calling for translation updates if you > happen to change something in the templates...or just in case when you > release a new version. > > This is done with the following command: > > $ podebconf-report-po > > This will build private mails to translators (ie people listed in > "Last-Translator" in the PO files) for translations that are > incomplete. These mails will included the needed PO file for each > translator. > OK. Thanks for the heads up. Ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
