Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Well, no, if you tell a package maintainer that it "has been decided" that > you're going to use infrastructure that the maintainer refuses to rely on, > that is most certainly a takeover.
Hmmm, the point that you don't want to use the Alioth infrastructure was indeed missing for me. Oherwise, we would have considered this in the discussions we had. So, please, do no understand "it has been decided that". The only conclusion at this time is that we highly depend on this package...:-) BTW, I've just seen Ruben report about the missing spanish translations....Looks like the i10n part needs some more work. I finally found a way to better handle the inclusion of gmo files from upstream without editing too much files. We're still left with some additionnal man pages which don'tmake it into the debs, however.... Indeed, my current concern is mostly the l10n handling. As the package is part of d-i statistics, translators are very active on it as you may have seen. So, at least an easier way for us/them to commit their work would highly help. I already do l10n commits for several d-i related packages (aptitude, popularity-contest...) and one more wouldn't be that much work. The proposal for alioth-maintained package was mostly because all d-i translators already have commit accounts there, which would help going further by giving them commit access the way we do in the d-i core project. You seem to be a bit disappointed about the way Debian is currently going, mostly because of release issue. I may understand this feeling of course....but this shouldn't probably prevent all of us to take care of the current work. For sure, the shadow codebase is maybe messy (I don't have for skills for having a good advice on this and certainly not for a rewrite), but it is currently part of the whole system....so though a rewrite is maybe a way to explore, it will certainly be a long trip before it may replace the current code. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
