Freeze exception request for gcompris 14.12

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr>]

Hi Release Team,

The following upstream update to gcompris has been suggested, and
after checking it seems to be to be good material, with extremely
limited-scope code-level bugfixes (which could be filtered-out if we
really want that, although I'd think it would be better to have them
in as well).

I'm thus requesting pre-approval for a 14.12 package.

Details follow:

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 03:52:37PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Package: gcompris
> Version: 14.07-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> I know we are in a freeze but can gcompris be upgraded/uploaded to 14.12 ?
> 
> These are the fixes and translation updates as shared below :-

I did a diff[1] between the 2 versions, and aside from translation
updates, the diffs are really:

* fixes in english messages and french wordlists
* hangman.py changes which can probably be trusted to be the 1st fix
  in the changelog
* tagging of some messages as translatable
* a more elaborate fix for #769339, which gives compatibility with both
  old and new versions of tuxpaint (which also at last gives a nice message
  to the user when tuxpaint is not installed)
* addition of Kannada language (included voices, which will create
  another binary package)

For an educational app, it would be great to have this mostly-message
update.

Given the freeze, I would understand if the hangman and tuxpaint
changes would not be accepted - but then, it'd be a bit of work to
just bring eveything-but-those in 14.07.  If the other updates are
accepted but not those, I would rather revert those 2 changes from
14.12 (making it a 14.12~something).

[1] diff -ru gcompris-14.07 gcompris-14.12 | filterdiff -x '*/Makefile.in' -x '*/debian/*' -x '*/po/*'

>  Fixed Hangman to fit keyboards with many letters. (by Fòram na Gàidhlig)
> - Add of a set of Kannada word dataset file (by Shambu K)
> - Wordsgame: minor fixes for french wordlist (by Holger Kaelberer)
> - tuxpaint, added support for the new --fullscreen option (by Pere
> Pujal i Carabantes)
> - core, added kannada in the language selector (by Bruno Coudoin)
> - erase, made the square less transparent (by Bruno Coudoin)
> - scale, added missing translation (by Bruno Coudoin)
> - Updated kannada translation (by Shankar Prasad)
> - Updated Czech translation (by Marek Černocký)
> - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (by Enrico Nicoletto)
> - Updated Greek translation (by Yannis Kaskamanidis)
> - Updated Scottish Gaelic translation (by GNOME Translation Robot)
> - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (by Enrico Nicoletto)
> - Updated Swedish translation (by Anders Jonsson)
> - Updated Russian translation: (by Yuri Myasoedov)
> - Updated Czech translation (by Marek Černocký)
> - Updated Greek translation (by Yannis Kaskamanidis)
> - Finnish translation update (by Lasse Liehu)
> - Update Catalan translation (by Pau Iranzo)
> - Updated kannada translation (by Shambu K)
> - Updated Dutch translation gcompris Master (by Hannie Dumoleyn)
> - Updated Czech translation (by Marek Černocký)
> 
> This was the changelog shared by Bruno Coudin on 23rd December 2014.