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Re: Intent to NMU or help for an l10n upload of amavisd-new to fix pending po-debconf l10n bugs



Christian Perrier schrieb am Donnerstag, den 11. September 2008:

Hi Christian, 

> The amavisd-new 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 487417 (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 amavisd-new 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:
> 
>  Thursday, September 11, 2008   : send this notice
>  Monday, September 15, 2008       : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you
>                  (maintainer) CC'ed
>  Sunday, September 21, 2008       : deadline for receiving translation updates
>  Monday, September 22, 2008       : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/2-day
>                  send the NMU patch to the BTS
>  Wednesday, September 24, 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.
That would be great as there are some other packages that need my attention
and I'm a little bit short of time... If I upload myself I can take sure that
everything is in our repository that changes won't get lost...

Thanks for you work! 

Alex

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Alexander Wirt, formorer@formorer.de 
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