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Re: debconf template translation



On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:59:56PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > I agree that *socially*, this might be a problem.
> > > 
> > > So, what to do?
> > > 
> > > How about you continue filing bugs with translated templates for the
> > > time being? The release is not anywhere on the horizon.
> > You understand that's almost an infinite amount of work? (Although it
> > can be automated.)
> 
> Notice that buildd maintainers are doing almost that for
> fail-to-build-from-source bugs, so it is not entirely
> impossible.

These bugs have a grave priority whereas they are wishlist bugreports
when dealing with l10n.

> > The only solution, IMHO, to this problem is a system that cuts out the
> > maintainer from the translation process (Of course they can take
> > responsibility of one or more languages) and adds translations to
> > packages automagically. I'm not saying that I have the answer here and
> > now, but I do think we should think hard about it and support what Grisu
> > is doing.
> 
> Basically, maintainer system is somewhat working with 
> build failure bugs, where we have 
> 
> 1. buildd.debian.org to initially check build failures
> 2. bugs are filed after buildd maintainers check the build log
> 3. if maintainer does not respond, someone NMUs the build failure.

I do not understand your analogy, there is no build failure when
translations are missing.

Denis



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