[Debian-l10n-devel] Request: adding translation updates for package descriptions Wheezy

[Joe Dalton]

Hi Martijn, never received an answer for this. I don't think anyone has any recollection about this subject. Perhaps somebody on the two lists "Debian Development" <debian-l10n-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>,"Debian sproglisten" <debian-i18n at lists.debian.org> can help out?

If i take a look on http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian7.4/main/i18n/ it looks like some languages does receive updates. Perhaps we could make a test and update e.g. Danish?

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/

bye
Joe

--- Den man 10/2/14 skrev Joe Dalton <joedalton2 at yahoo.dk>:

> Fra: Joe Dalton <joedalton2 at yahoo.dk>
> Emne: Request: adding translation updates for package descriptions Wheezy
> Til: ftpmaster at debian.org
> Cc: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog at gmail.com>
> Dato: mandag 10. februar 2014 10.20
> Hi, I'm writing to you on behalf of
> the Danish translation team. We and other translations team
> are working hard to bring translation updates to Debian.
> 
> Some off that work also include translation updates for
> package descriptions for the stable version of Debian. These
> updates are - at the moment - not integrated, and therefore
> does not benefit the users.
> 
> We haven't been able to find the arguments for not making
> this integration, but there could be good reasons. Is it
> something you guys could shed some light on?
> 
> Bye
> Joe
> Danish
> 
> 
> --- Den søn 9/2/14 skrev Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Fra: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com>
> > Emne: Re: Getting rid of churro?
> > Til: "Joe Dalton" <joedalton2 at yahoo.dk>
> > Cc: "Christian PERRIER" <bubulle at debian.org>,
> "Andreas Tille" <tille at debian.org>,
> "Debian L10N Development" <debian-l10n-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>,
> "Debian I18n" <debian-i18n at lists.debian.org>,
> "Thomas Goirand" <zigo at debian.org>
> > Dato: søndag 9. februar 2014 23.07
> > On 9 February 2014 20:16,
> > Joe Dalton <joedalton2 at yahoo.dk>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > new translations in Danish is now sent to my Jessie
> > installation. Great news. Thanks.
> > and it seems all the important languages are updated
> > (strange some files isn't updated).
> > 
> > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/i18n/
> 
> > Is it possible to make an update in Wheezy?
> > 
> > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/
> > 
> > hasn't been updated since 2013-05
> > 
> > In theory yes, however the
> > ftpmasters decided (somewhere) that stable releases
> > shouldn't get translation updates. I'm not sure I
> > agree with the reasoning, but there it is. As a
> practical
> > issue fixing that would be changing one line in dak,
> and
> > telling ddtp.d.n to generate the necessary files. But
> > it's more of a policy thing really.
> > 
> > 
> > Or at least, that's my
> > recollection of it. Trying to find evidence in git
> repos
> > drew a blank though; references to stable are
> carefully
> > commented out everywhere  right from the start.
> Evidently
> > the choice was made prior to the first commit of the
> > automatic update code (ddtp-dinstall).
> > 
> > 
> > I would argue that when
> > Debian does a point release with stable-updates, that
> > translations should be considered part of that.
> > 
> > Have a nice day,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com>
> > http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > 
> >