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Re: Coordination with GNU Translation Project



On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:48:20PM +0100, Claus Hindsgaul wrote:
> How does Debian coordinate its i18n efforts with the GNU Translation Project?
> It seems like a lot of translation work on upstream packages never reach 
> Debian. If I got it right, it's an awful waste.
> 
> I just compared the list of Debian gettext'ed (*.po) programs translated into 
> Danish: http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po-da
> 
> to the GNU Translation Project list of .po-files for the Danish language:
> http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/registry.cgi?team=da
> 
> It turned out, that several existing (and old) Danish translations in the 
> latter has never reached the Debian packages.

Do you really believe we remove translations from upstream sources?
These webpages only try to give a hint on localized packages, and
statistics' extraction obviously fail for some packages, that's all.

Denis



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