(crossposted to several mailing lists. Please respect the Reply-To field) As of March 3rd 2007, all packages in Debian unstable that have translatable debconf templates are translated into French [1].
This is the result of a continuous effort in the last years and particularly the last 4.5 years, since the upload of po-debconf back in September 2002 by Denis Barbier which enabled translators to use gettext to handle debconf translations. This achievement, combined with the translation of the Debian Installer, is the guarantee that even a complete installation of a Debian system with all possible packages, when run in French, will only show French-speaking prompts to the user. That effort is also ongoing for several other languages [2], thanks to the commitment of the numerous contributors from the Debian internationalisation community [3]. All thanks and credits for the achievement of the French localisation are due to the French translators [5] as well as all Debian package maintainers who have regularly fixed the dozens of bug reports sent by translators over the years. A last effort will now target the 100% mark for packages in testing. The current status, as of [4], is 99.2%. Links: [1] http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/fr [2] http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/rank [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/ [4] http://alioth.debian.org/~thuriaux-guest/tmp/testing.stats [5] Contributors of the French translations: Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) Alexis Sukrieh Aurelien Jarno Aurelien Ricard BUIRA Etienne Cédric Favry Christian Perrier Christophe lincoln Christophe Masson Clément Stenac Cyril Brulebois Cyril Martin Daniel Déchelotte DELACOUR Guillaume Denis Barbier Emmanuel le Chevoir Eric Madesclair Florentin Duneau Florent Usseil Frédéric Bothamy Frédéric Schütz Frédéric Zulian Gabriel Laurent Gaetan CRAHAY Gregory Colpart Guilhelm Panaget Guillaume Nault Ivan Buresi Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner Jean-Christophe Champarnaud Jean-Christophe Dubacq Jean-Luc Coulon Jean-Marc Chaton Jérémie Corbier Jose Luis Tallon Julien Louis Julien Rosal Julien Valroff Laszlo Laurence Colombet Laurent Pelecq Le Mignant pierre Ludovic Drolez Ludovic Rousseau Marco Presi Martin Quinson Michel Grentzinger Mohammed Adnène Trojette Nicolas Bertolissio Olivier Gauwin Olivier Trichet Philippe Batailler Pierre Machard Rémi Pannequin Séverine lombardo Simon Paillard Steve Langasek Steve Petruzzello Sylvain Archenault Sylvain LE GALL Thomas Capacci Thomas Huriaux Thomas Morin Thomas Viehmann Valéry Perrin Xavier Luthi Yannick Roehlly Yves Rütschlé Special credit to Steve Langasek who corrected this announcement --
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