hi christian, really strange coincidence, i kid you not--i was just importing the source packages into git as i recieved this. updates should be heading to sid shortly. sean On Wednesday 26 March 2008 07:53:12 pm Christian Perrier wrote: > Dear Debian maintainer, > > The sugarplum Debian package, which you are the maintainer of, has > pending bug report(s) which include translation updates or fixes > for po-debconf, namely bug number 413784 (and maybe other similar bugs). > > Even if we're still far from the release of the next Debian version, > letting such bugs sleep in the BTS is simply lowering > the chances that your package interaction with its users may be done > in something else than the English language. It is also not > encouraging for translators. > > I have the intention, as part of a more general action of the Debian > i18n Task Force to build and possibly upload a non-maintainer upload > for sugarplum in order to fix this as well as all pending translations > for the debconf templates. > > Of course, an upload made by you would even be better...:-) > > Such changes are always harmless, which explains why I safely consider > building NMU's for such issues even though they're obviously non critical. > > The schedule for the NMU (in case it happens, that is if you agree with it > or if I don't receive any answer in 14 days) is roughly the following: > > Wednesday, March 26, 2008 : send this notice > Wednesday, April 09, 2008 : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n > with you (maintainer) CC'ed > Saturday, April 19, 2008 : deadline for receiving translation > updates Sunday, April 20, 2008 : build the package and upload it to > DELAYED/2-day send the NMU patch to the BTS > Tuesday, April 22, 2008 : NMU reaches incoming > > If you intent to upload yourself, please notify me so that I interrupt > the process on my side. > > In case I upload an NMU, I will subscribe to the Package Tracking System > for sugarplum and follow its life for 60 days after my NMU in order to fix > any issue potentially introduced by my upload. > > Let me know, as soon as possible, if you have any kind of objection to this > process. > > If you'd rather do the fix yourself, I will of course leave the package > alone. Same if you have reasons not to do the update now.
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