Dear Debian maintainer, The foomatic-gui 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 413530 (and maybe other similar bugs).
Even if we're still far from the release of the next Debian version, letting such bugs sleep in the BTS is simply lowering the chances that your package interaction with its users may be done in something else than the English language. It is also not encouraging for translators. I have the intention, as part of a more general action of the Debian i18n Task Force to build and possibly upload a non-maintainer upload for foomatic-gui in order to fix this as well as all pending translations for the debconf templates. 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 14 days) is roughly the following: Thursday, October 11, 2007 : send this notice Thursday, October 25, 2007 : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you (maintainer) CC'ed Sunday, November 04, 2007 : deadline for receiving translation updates Monday, November 05, 2007 : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/0-day send the NMU patch to the BTS Tuesday, November 06, 2007 : NMU uploaded to incoming If you intent to upload yourself, I suggest waiting for a few days anyway as some translations could come in soon. Just mention this to me. I will then subscribe to the Package Tracking System for foomatic-gui 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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