Re: Bug#235732: Announce of the upcoming NMU for the atlas3 package
Greetings, and thanks so much for your work here!
As I understand your proposal, I do object, so please abort, at least
temporarily, so we can consult upon the best course forward. I have
already consulted the opinion of many atlas users, and the 'annoying
note opinion' is far from universally held. Please also note the
currently reduced priority of the notes. This said, I might be
persuaded that some or even all of the content belongs in
README.Debian. What I object to is basing this assessment on the
opinion of those submitting bugs, and not the vast silent majority who
appear to like things the way they are.
Take care,
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
> Dear maintainer of atlas3 and Debian translators,
>
> On 27 sep 2006 I sent a notice to the maintainer of the atlas3 Debian
> package, mentioning the status of l10n in his package.
>
> More analysis shows that this source package is probably the best
> scorer in the "annoying useless debconf notes" contest.
>
> Please see #235732, #388816-#388821.
>
> A lot of valuable translation work has also been left ignored.
>
> ALL this translation work applies to very annoying notes that are
> shown during the variosu binary packages install.
>
> I announced the intent to build and possibly upload a non-maintainer upload
> for this package in order to fix this long-time pending localization
> bug as well as all other pending translations.
>
> The package maintainer did not respond in a week so I will proceed with the
> NMU.
>
> This NMU will REMOVE all debconf notes and move their text to a
> README.Debian file.
>
> If the maintainer objects to this process I will immediately abort my
> NMU.... but only if some promise is made to work on this issue.
>
> Otherwise the following will happen (or already has):
>
> 27 sep 2006 : send the first intent to NMU notice to
> the package maintainer.
> 04 oct 2006 : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you
> (maintainer) CC'ed
> 11 oct 2006 : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/2-day
> send the NMU patch to the BTS
> 13 oct 2006 : NMU uploaded to incoming
> 14 oct 2006 : NMU enters unstable
>
> Thanks for your efforts and time.
>
> --
>
>
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