hi christian, as with cacti, feel free to NMU this package in the manner most convenient for you. i don't plan on making any updates before lenny. regards, sean On Friday 05 September 2008 08:11:06 am Christian Perrier wrote: > Dear Debian maintainer, > > The cacti-spine Debian package, which you are the maintainer of, has > pending bug report(s) which include translation updates or fixes > for po-debconf, namely bug number 487882 (and maybe other similar bugs). > > Even though this bug is quite recent, the release of Debian is now > getting closer and an opportunity should be taken to not only fix > that l10n bug, but also get more translations for your package. > Even after the freeze, updates that only contain l10n are allowed. NOW is > th emoment to fix this. > > In case you can't update your package, I have the intention, as part > of a more general action of the Debian i18n Task Force to build and > possibly upload a non-maintainer upload for cacti-spine in order to fix > this as well as all pending translations for the debconf templates. > > Of course, as you seem pretty active on that package, an upload by you > would also be OK...as long as it allows a round of translation > updates. > > Such changes are always harmless, which explains why I safely consider > building NMU's for such issues even though they're obviously non critical. > > The schedule for the NMU (in case it happens, that is if you agree with it > or if I don't receive any answer in 10 days) is roughly the following: > > Friday, September 05, 2008 : send this notice > Tuesday, September 09, 2008 : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n > with you (maintainer) CC'ed > Monday, September 15, 2008 : deadline for receiving translation > updates Tuesday, September 16, 2008 : build the package and upload it > to DELAYED/2-day send the NMU patch to the BTS > Thursday, September 18, 2008 : NMU reaches incoming > > If you intent to upload yourself, please discuss with me. I propose > handling a translation update round and I can handle it myself for you. > That will just require a few days. > > In case I upload an NMU, I will subscribe to the Package Tracking System > for cacti-spine and follow its life for 60 days after my NMU in order to > fix any issue potentially introduced by my upload. > > Let me know, as soon as possible, if you have any kind of objection to this > process. > > If you'd rather do the fix yourself, I will of course leave the package > alone. Same if you have reasons not to do the update now.
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