Hello, On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:03:15AM +0100, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On 2016-12-20 10:56, Andrey Skvortsov wrote: > > On 16-12-20 09:23, helix84 wrote: > >> That's up to the maintainer of each individual package. First and > >> foremost, unless you're translating a package that appears only > >> in Debian or debconf templates of a package, you really should > >> send your translation to the upstream package where it will > >> appear in the next upstream release. Then you need to wait for > >> the debian package maintainer (won't hurt to ping them) to > >> package that upstream release. Whether that package version is > >> part of Stretch will depend on the freeze deadlines [1] (full > >> freeze for updates to existing packages). > > > > Previously I thought that the best approach would be to report a > > bug against Debian package with new/updated translation attached > > and package maintainer will forward it to the upstream project. In > > this case Debian will get all translation even if next upstream > > release is going to miss Debian release. > > This is mostly luck rather than rule. If you submit a translation to > debian and it is not included in the upstream/original project the > package maintainer need to care for the local change until it is > included and that's typically things a maintainer will avoid (by good > reasons).
Unless, of course, upstream does not like to use the translation, e.g.
because localization is done only in debian. I'm involveed in two
packages where this is the case, unfortunately.
> Translations of individual applications are better done at the
> original project because by that it will benefit all users not only
> Debian and their downstreams (Ubuntu et al). It will also be easier to
> integrate updates to the translations into the release process of the
> upstram project.
Agreed.
Greetings
Helge
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