-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey! :-)
On 09/28/2006 04:13 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060928 08:47]: > >>I would like to ask you to review again your position. This code is >>around since 3 years ago and in use on Ubuntu too. Are too few >>packages that will need recompile. > > How does it come that the code isn't promoted at the beginning of a > release cycle, but at a time where the base freeze has happened? The upload of apt with support to translated package description is recent, but the code is old. What happens is that during i18n Extremadura (Sept. 7th-10th) we discusses that having apt in "etch" should be a good idea to have it supported and tested for etch+1, but I remember that our discussions in Extremadura always consider the Release Team opinion on the matter. After DebConf, Christian requested to have support for translated packages descriptions as a "pet release goal", some time later the experimental upload took place, the DDTS was revived, a web interface was created and we thought that asking Release Team for apt transition is the right thing to do. It is sad that we don't have time to include apt in etch? Yes, it is. But the i18n/l10n teams will understand the reasons. If the transition is not suitable, ok, we will work hard to get it just after etch release, and to support other ideas for i18n in Debian. :-) I don't think we need to "fight" in that matter, as I said, it is OK to not have apt with translations in etch (it's sad but it's OK, nobody will get hurt and no SuperCows will die). And I do think it's possible to workaround it, at least for CDDs using backports.org or something in that matter. We are late at the release cycle, if it is still possible, I'm sure that everybody involved in i18n will do their best to help release team with regards to the apt. If Release Team thinks we should wait etch+1, so let's work hard to have etch on December and we can have apt supporting translations for package descriptions in unstable by the end of the year. ;) [...] > Cheers, > Andi Kind regards, - -- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) "Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFG+57CjAO0JDlykYRAhJ5AKCEV76NYO4QrzCNdueCH+b9j0trdQCbBV74 Rg6XnODDy0A7kjO6dCUPQM0= =DeO4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]