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Christian Perrier wrote: | Bringin the power of gettext to debconf (namely "po-debconf") has been | by far one of the major improvements in Debian's i18n infrastructure | over last years (it appeared a few weeks after woody's release and | entered unstable on Oct 1st 2002). | | Nearly all, if not all, translators agree that maintaining | translations for packages which do NOT use po-debconf is a real pain | and nearly impossible. | | This is why a huge effort was put to have packages which use debconf | switch their templates files to the "new" po-debconf style, which | allows translators to handle their work with the familiar GNU gettext | tools. | | We are now left with 102 packages which do not use po-debconf. Most | often these packages have no translation for their templates, or | translations which are highly outdated, making them useless. | Most often they are not very actively maintained, or even | orphaned. Sometimes, their maintainers simply do not care.
I think there might be more than 102 packages left. I don't think the packages with an embedded tarball in the source are counted?
| Martin Quinson, Michel Grentzinger, myself, Andr� Luis Lopes and a few | other translators have reported bugs against these packages, | suggesting they switch to the "new" system, most often providing them | with a patch. | | This is now time for action...:-). Similarly to what was done with | longstanding pending translations, I will start a "NMU campaign" | targeting these packages. This campaign will be made with the same | care for respecting maintainers work and gently interact with them | (this has proven efficient for old pending translations). | We will of course use this opportunity for adding some translations to | these packages..:-) | | Of course, help on that matter is very welcomed (Luk, Martin, others...).
Yes, I want to help. Any suggestion on what packages to start?
Cheers
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