[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#710713: Bug#710713: yubikey-val: [debconf_rewrite] Debconf templates and debian/control review proposal

[Simon Josefsson]

Hi.  Thanks for the report.  Sorry about missing to notify the l10n team
about this -- we put the package up on mentors and asked for review on
some debian mailing lists, but not regarding l10n.  We are very happy
for your review of this aspect, since this is probably the least well
understood part of this package from our side, so we want to learn more
here.

/Simon

lör 2013-06-01 klockan 22:53 +0300 skrev Christian Perrier:
> Package: yubikey-val
> Version: N/A
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Debian maintainer,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just noticed new or modified debconf templates appearing for this
> package.
> 
> I would like to suggest you to consider calling for debconf templates
> review AND translation updates when you introduce new debconf
> templates or modify the existing templates in a package or, if you
> prefer, to send a call for translations after uploading the first
> version that introduces new templates or templates changes.
> 
> If you're interested in suggestions for doing this, you can find some
> at the end of this bug report.
> 
> The debian-l10n-english team will now start a review, on our own
> initiative. It will be conducted through this bug report.
> 
> 
> Suggestions for future debconf templates review
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1) Getting debconf templates reviewed
> --------------------------------------
> 
> The Debian i18n contributors have developed a set of suggestions for
> the writing style of debconf templates, to give them an overall
> consistency all around Debian. These writing style suggestions are
> explained in the Developers Reference. Lintian also warns about common
> writing style concerns.
> 
> Maintainers are welcome when they ask for a review of debconf templates
> and/or packages descriptions on debian-l10n-english at lists.debian.org.
> It is of course not needed to wait for someone (such as me right me)
> proposing you such a review.
> 
> In such situations (whether the review is requested by the maintainer
> or proposed by someone else), someone from the debian-l10n-english
> team will pick up the review to do, handle it, and finally send you a
> bug report with the suggested templates. If you want, you can ask for
> being CC'ed to the various discussions when the templates are
> reviewed.
> 
> 
> 2) Call for new translations
> ----------------------------
> 
> As soon as the templates have been reviewed, you can ask Debian
> translators for new translations:
> 
> Just go to your package's build tree and use:
> 
> $ podebconf-report-po --call
> 
> This will propose you a generic mail which is to be sent to
> debian-i18n at lists.debian.org and call for new translations.
> 
> This utility will mention existing translations to avoid duplicate
> work. 
> 
> It will also attach the needed material to this mail.
> 
> Please also think about giving a deadline to translators. We like
> deadlines..:-)
> 
> 3) Always call for translation updates before uploading
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> (of course only when you change the debconf templates!)
> 
> If your package already includes debconf translations (ie *.po files
> in debian/po), please consider calling for translation updates if you
> happen to change something in the templates...or just in case when you
> release a new version.
> 
> This is done with the following command:
> 
> $ podebconf-report-po
> 
> This will build private mails to translators (ie people listed in
> "Last-Translator" in the PO files) for translations that are
> incomplete. These mails will included the needed PO file for each
> translator.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
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