Re: Please unblock mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.32-6 <- ABI problems!
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 17 février 2007 à 14:14 +0100, Christian Perrier a écrit :
> > > mysql-dfsg-5.0 (5.0.32-6) unstable; urgency=low
> > >
> > > * Changed wording in Debconf templates to better fit to the graphical
> > > interface (thanks to Frank Kuester). Closes: #411165
> > > * Lintian suggested style changes to some other Debconf questions.
> >
> >
> > Don't tell me that you *again* broke out debconf templates
> > translations?
> >
> > This is actually the 8th time you do this in one year (at least I
> > count up to 8 updates to the French translation).
>
> In GNOME, there is a string freeze which forbids such changes for
> several weeks before the planned release. I think we have no reason for
> not doing the same in Debian. If we want translated templates, we must
> not change them every other day, it's as simple as that.
I'd like to see this too. fwiw, we've had an unofficial string freeze in on
the Xorg packages for some time now. Given that so many of the unblock
requests are for translation updates, it'd be great to have the majority of
those done and frozen before the actual code freeze.
- David Nusinow
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