On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 February 2014 20:16, Joe Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> new translations in Danish is now sent to my Jessie installation. Great >> news. Thanks. >> >> and it seems all the important languages are updated (strange some files >> isn't updated). >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/i18n/ >> >> Is it possible to make an update in Wheezy? >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/ >> hasn't been updated since 2013-05 >> > > In theory yes, however the ftpmasters decided (somewhere) that stable > releases shouldn't get translation updates. I'm not sure I agree with the > reasoning, but there it is. As a practical issue fixing that would be > changing one line in dak, and telling ddtp.d.n to generate the necessary > files. But it's more of a policy thing really. > > Or at least, that's my recollection of it. Trying to find evidence in git > repos drew a blank though; references to stable are carefully commented out > everywhere right from the start. Evidently the choice was made prior to the > first commit of the automatic update code (ddtp-dinstall). > > I would argue that when Debian does a point release with stable-updates, > that translations should be considered part of that.
I very vaguely remember that I used to get (daily?) updates using translation pdiffs at one time when I used to translate package descriptions a lot. Now I don't remember whether this was for stable. It might even have been on Ubuntu. I don't remember how to configure it but maybe it will ring a bell for someone else. Regards, ~~helix84 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGdvKqiSsYt6vYerQdCgekBHW2wKhqW7Pa7Rm9-X6pTob0U=a...@mail.gmail.com
