[Debian-l10n-devel] Bug#722618: ftp.debian.org: DDTP translations are not updated

[Andreas Tille]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: important

Hello,

since June the DDTP translations are not integrated into official Debian
any more which might make translators unwilling to keep on their good
work and prevents users from profiting from the translations.  Instead
of a proper import the daily cron job is sending mails like this:

  First mail of this kind:
  [1]  https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2013-May/002486.html
        which is refering to
          missing the timestamp 201304290837 directory, not updating i18n

  [2]  https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2013-June/002659.html
        which is refering to
          missing the timestamp 201306050912 directory, not updating i18n

  Last mail of this kind from today:
  [3]  https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2013-September/003113.html

However the spook started with some other "Arf-Mail":

  [4] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2013-April/002478.html
          bad guys, wrong files

and interestingly this type of mails

  [5] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2013-June/002658.html
          bad guys, wrong files

stopped once the type [2] mails started (see thread archive).

We have two orthogonal problems which might have cause these issues:

  1. Wheezy was released and Jessie would have needed to be included on
     ftpmaster side.  In

      https://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2013/05/msg00067.html

      Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com>

     has provided a patch which probably was not directed to the right
     persons (which I'm trying to fix by this bug report).

  2. There was an additional problem with the computer hosting
     ddpt.debian.net which was down for several weeks. :-(
     So in addition to the patch provided by Martijn it could
     perfectly be the case that some directories with timestamps
     (see Arf above) might be missing or improperly named.

I'm personally not involved in i18n and the technique behind but the
i18n team seems to have a dramatic loss of manpower so nobody has raised
your attention onto this issue.  I'm volunteering to stir the
communication as long as needed to get the translations properly
forwarded (and I really hope we will get this done before my vaccation
which will start at 20.9.2013).

Kind regards and thanks for your work as ftpmaster

     Andreas.