Hello,
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:26:41AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I *very* strongly disagree with this.
>
> Translations are useful even when they are partial, that's the entire
> point of gettext.
As part of the German (debconf) translation team, I stronly second
Christians point. There is no disadvantage (!) for you as maintainer,
simply add it.
> In French, we call this "course à l'échalotte"....
Is this "vicious cycle"? In German this would be "Teufelskreis".
> So, please reconsider this. Please include all pending translations for
> your package even though they are incomplete, then issue a call for
> translation updates (or just let translators discover the new strings:
> some of us fortunately have some automated processes for that).
Yes, this would be the ideal solution. Simply including it would also
be sufficient because as Christian said those would be picked up and
dealt with automatically (well, not the translation of course) and -
using the (outdated) translation - the previous translator would be
located who could recuse his old translation (and even if only for
certain phrase or special terms he carfully chose during his initial
translation.
Greetings
Helge
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