Bug#677937: apt: Please update Greek translation
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:44:17PM +0200, Savvas Radevic wrote:
>> Do you update the translations automatically or do we have to request it?
>
> Greek <debian-l10n-greek@lists.debian.org> is responsible for the Greek translation. We
> do not use translations from Ubuntu/launchpad.
The reason is simply that we can't, even if we would want to.
Hunting for patches in derivatives to merge them upstream is a problem
already we can barly achieve - and it is generally preferable if the
derivative comes to us to propose their changes.
But such merges are easy compared to merging po files as the patches are
usually written in a language we can understand (C/C++), but I am not
familiar with Greek or the other ~45 languages APT is translated to, so
I can't compare the strings and identify which one is the (more) correct
one and/or if it is just a stylistic change: Different translation teams
might have different "style-guides" they follow to ensure that the same
word is translated in the same way everywhere to not confuse a reader by
using a million different words with a similar meaning for exactly the
same thing…
So i would be merging a black box from a "random" location on the web in
the hope that it is an improvement … That can't be the right procedure.
We therefore really on people who can actually understand the content of the
file they are working on, which in this case is the mentioned greek-l10n list:
debian-l10n-greek@lists.debian.org.
The last recorded translator is "quad-nrg.net <yodesy@quad-nrg.net>", but
the last update is from 2008, so it should be okay to write a mail to the list
(and the previous translator) with an intention to take over the translation.
Make sure to attach your po to this mail and ask for review.
After a hopefully healthy discussion which made the translation even
more perfect come back to this place and open a bug against apt
(for bonus points add the tag "l10n" for this bug) and we will be happy to
merge it which will then automatically be used by all debian derivatives,
so that the maximum amount of people benefit from your contribution. :)
(In the meantime i am closing this bugreport - as said,
feel free to reopen it or open a new one after the review.)
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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