Hello,

On Fri 27 Jan 2023 at 09:40AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote:

> "M. Zhou" <lu...@debian.org> writes:
>
>> I was the former zh_CN translator for apt and dpkg. And I had the
>> exactly the same idea for translating other documents for Debian many
>> years ago.  If I remembered what I have been told correctly, debian
>> policy is an very important document and is frequently updated. We have
>> to make sure the content can be consistently conveyed without any
>> discrepancy introduced by translation.  Meanwhile, an out-of-sync
>> translated version of debian policy would also be a headache to the
>> policy team once made official.
>
> I think this should be okay now.  Policy uses the normal translation
> framework, so if a part of it has been updated and the translation is out
> of date, I believe that section will revert to English (if I understand
> how the translation machinery works).
>
> That said, we haven't tried to incorporate translation work in a while, so
> some of the machinery has probably rusted and will need repairs.

Yup, please create MRs with translations here:
<https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy-l10n-merge-requests-here>

-- 
Sean Whitton

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