Colin Watson wrote: > So, how do I find all debconf templates for my packages? > http://ddtp.debian.org/stats/debconf/mantainers.en.html (sic) claims > that I can do this, but the URLs it suggests don't exist. When you have > 30-odd source packages, it's incredibly tedious to trawl through looking > for package names. > > The one update that I did find (faqomatic, although that's in the > process of being adopted by somebody else) was certainly never sent to > me. If it had been I would have uploaded it almost immediately. As it > is, it's just rotting. Similarly, I am *desperately* trying to get all of base-config's translations up-to-date. It's very easy for some translations; these have active maintainers who just commit them to the debian base-config cvs repository every time I change english text, and even update my changelog for me. It's well-nigh impossible for the translations that are in the PTS, since for many language only half of the translation is available, and it doesn't match the 50% of a translation I already have in base-config cvs for that language. Leaving me trying to manually hunt down and download and merge po files somhow. This is very frustrating. > I have corrected errors in translations in the past; I estimate that I > have to make corrections about one in five times I receive a translation > (whether PO files or debconf templates). Just because I'm a native > English speaker doesn't mean I can't make a good attempt to check > translations into other languages, particularly of text I'm familiar > with, and spot obvious errors. Same here, though I'd call it more like one in ten times for me, and somewhat less lately with po-debconf po files. > DO NOT try to circumvent me for packages I maintain, PLEASE; it is a > persistent myth that maintainers cannot help with translations, and it > is simply arrogant and wrong. If you persist in regarding package > maintainers as people who are just out to get in your way, then it's no > wonder you're encountering resistance. What he said. -- see shy jo
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