Re: [RANT] French translation for debconf templates stucked at 90% : analysis

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Marco d'Itri]
> I do not think this is a good thing. Packages with updated templates
> should be uploaded in time for the release, but IMO doing a new
> upload only because of the translations wastes bandwith and buildds
> time.

Translations need testing too.  They need to be exposed to users, to
make sure misunderstandings are detected and fixed as soon as
possible.  In addition, this process also normally exposes confusing
or inaccurate english phrases, which need to be fixed as soon as
possible to make sure all translators manage to update the
translations.

Updating translations in the archive is not a waste of bandwidth and
buildd time.