Christian Perrier wrote: > What is the current status of the sarge branch ? > > Is it synced with what we really have in RC3 (at least for the > initrds) or does it still need some synchronisation. It's fully synchronised with rc3 and rc3 has also been tagged in subversion. > I guess that forking all D-I packages as soon as sarge is released > will be needed but maybe other plans are possible. > > My main concern is the way to handle l10n. > > We recently talked about removal of packages/po/* in the sarge branch > to avoid confusion (no sync is currently made from these files anyway) > and I think it's still likely to be made. > > After all no change or addition of English strings are to be made > post-sarge so there is no real point in the central master files, at > least to gather the original strings. > > However, translators may find typos and errors in the sarge > translations and these are good candidates to be fixed in later > releases of the sarge installer (if we plan to make releases from time > to time). We have to give them an easy way to correct these. > > One solution is asking translators to make corrections directly in > individual packages POs. > > Another is keeping the master files and sync the packages PO files > from them from time to time. Thus translators still only need to > update the master files. Either one seems viable for me, so whatever works best for you, I think. -- see shy jo
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