The kdebase templates and the German translation

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

Hi all,

  I'm writing to this list in hopes that the situation of the German
  translation for the kdebase debconf templates can be clarified.

  We've just recevied Bug#291954 [1], "[l10n] german translation of
  kdebase debconf messages" from Burkhard Lück.

    [1] http://bugs.debian.org/291954

  However, a translation was already included in kdebase 4:3.3.0a-1
  (back in September 2004), and the templates had not changed in the
  meantime. Such translation was sent in Bug#264608 [2] by Erik Schanze.

    [2] http://bugs.debian.org/264608

  _Still_, there was an older bug from Helge Kreutzmann, Bug#252060 [3],
  which also contained a translation. We missed this bug when uploading
  the translation in #264608 -- this shouldn't have happened, but that's
  how it went. Sorry.

    [3] http://bugs.debian.org/252060

  I apologized to Helge in [4], inviting him to make corrections to
  Erik's translation if necessary. If you follow the bug, you can see
  that he did, and CC'ed Erik asking for approval, but there has been no
  reply until now.

    [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252060&msg=23

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  So, the KDE maintainers (and, I can imagine, any maintainer) would be
  very happy to have only one translation sent, ideally with some sort
  of "this translation has the approval of the relevant l10n team" link.
  This way, a straightforward action can be performed ("include the .po
  file") without fear of incruding the "wrong" translation.

  Thanks for considering.

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