Re: Intent to NMU auth2db to fix pending po-debconf l10n bugs
> Dear Debian maintainer,
To be honest, I'm ATM involved as Upstream too :-)
(keep reading to understand it)
>
> The auth2db 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 468816 (and maybe other similar bugs).
>
I'm fully aware of all this. Keep reading
> Even if we're still far from the release of the next Debian version,
> letting such bugs sleep in the BTS is simply lowering
> the chances that your package interaction with its users may be done
> in something else than the English language. It is also not
> encouraging for translators.
>
Answered below
> 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 auth2db in order to fix this as well as all pending translations
> for the debconf templates.
>
> Of course, an upload made by you would even be better...:-)
>
> 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 14 days) is roughly the following:
>
> Sunday, April 13, 2008 : send this notice
> Sunday, April 27, 2008 : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n
> with you
> (maintainer) CC'ed
> Wednesday, May 07, 2008 : deadline for receiving translation
> updates
> Thursday, May 08, 2008 : build the package and upload it to
> DELAYED/2-day
> send the NMU patch to the BTS
> Saturday, May 10, 2008 : NMU reaches incoming
As I mentioned, I'm working ATM as upstream too; I met upstream on a
Conference, and established a quite informal-and-fluent channel in this
way.
We work togheter with aspects about this soft, I'm currently developing
some parts that I consider needs to let it being included on next release
(some of them are even Debian-specific).
Moreover, if in any case I don't finish this pieces, I'd request to keep
it out of Lenny.
The ETA I estimate for this pieces would take place aprox on the middle of
your schedule, so this will only make my work more difficult, as I think I
would need more than one upload.
>
> If you intent to upload yourself, please notify me so that I interrupt
> the process on my side.
Interrupt it please, thanks.
> 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.
(Given below)
Thanks for caring about auth2DB and have a nice day.
Greetings,
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