Intent to NMU or help for an l10n upload of mumble to fix pending po-debconf l10n bugs

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 11.10.2010 07:39, schrieb Christian PERRIER:
> Dear Debian maintainer,
>
> ("oh no, not him again"...)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.. :)

>
> The mumble Debian package, which you are the maintainer of, has
> pending bug report(s) which include translation updates or fixes
> for po-debconf, namely bug number 590442 (and maybe other similar bugs).

Will be fixed with the next time :)

>
> The i18n team is now hunting the very last bits of missing localization
> and your package went on our radar. You may have uploaded recently but,
> unfortunately for you, you then got *another* l10n bug report. We
> really should prevent translators from translating..:-)
>
> So, sorry for this, but the radar beeped at your package and here am I
> with an NMU intent...:-)
>
> In case you can't update your package, I hereby propose, as part
> of a more general action of the Debian i18n Task Force to build and
> possibly upload a non-maintainer upload for mumble in order to fix
> this as well as all pending translations for the debconf templates.
>
> Of course, as you seem pretty active on that package, an upload by you
> would also be OK...as long as it allows a round of translation
> updates.
>
> Such changes are always harmless, which explains why I safely consider
> building NMU's for such issues even though they're obviously non critical.
>
> The schedule for the NMU (in case it happens, that is if you agree with it
> or if I don't receive any answer in 2 days) is roughly the following:
>
>   Monday, October 11, 2010   : send this notice
>   Wednesday, October 13, 2010       : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you
>                   (maintainer) CC'ed
>   Sunday, October 17, 2010       : deadline for receiving translation updates
>   Tuesday, October 19, 2010       : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/2-day
>                   send the NMU patch to the BTS
>   Thursday, October 21, 2010       : NMU reaches incoming
>
> If you intent to upload yourself, please discuss with me. I propose
> handling a translation update round and I can handle it myself for you.
> That will just require a few days.
>
> In case I upload an NMU, I will subscribe to the Package Tracking System for
> mumble and follow its life for 60 days after my NMU in order to fix
> any issue potentially introduced by my upload.
>
> Let me know, as soon as possible, if you have any kind of objection to this
> process.
>
> If you'd rather do the fix yourself, I will of course leave the package
> alone. Same if you have reasons not to do the update now.
>
>
>
>
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