(please respect Reply-to to avoid cluttering 3 lists at the same time) To make the work of the French l10n team easier I do a daily survey of changes to debconf templates that trigger translation updates needs. I'm currently seeing changes to 1 or 2 packages *every day*. Most of these are probably triggerred by maintainers finally paying attention to lintian warnings and working on the wording of their debconf templates. As a consequence, we translators are always running behind you folks, trying to catchup with your changes...as, of course, you most of the time upload packages with modified templates *without* warning translators in debian-i18n and giving them time to update their work. I understand that this is not done on purpose and that you don't hate us...:-) So, please, now that etch release is more and more closely coming, *stop changing your debconf templates* or do it by warning the i18n folks before. We can even help you to change templates for typos and the like *without* breaking your work. In short, *freeze your debconf templates*.... This is pretty late in the release process but I think that, for lenny release, I will suggest to the release team to refuse the transition to testing for packages that failed to follow that suggested policy. --
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