Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Ben Finney
gregor herrmann writes: > An interesting question is how to detect outdated translated manpages; According to ‘man-pages(7)’, the TH command in the man page should have the date of the latest version of the document: The first command in a man page should be a TH command:

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Christian Perrier writes: > Before people "blindly" update their Standards-Version, I deeply > suggest looking at this item: >> * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the >> original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with >> warning text or by sho

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:51:32 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > > I did start such a guide via my blog during DebConf8 > > > > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/129-po4a-translation-support-from-any-format.html > > Would you (or anyone else) be willing to turn this into an ar

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:22:26 +0200 gregor herrmann wrote: > > > As such, this "should" prevents *many* packages to meet 3.8.3 for > > > Standards-Version. You may thus want to check things carefully..:) > > An interesting question is how to detect outdated translated > manpages; if they are only

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Gregor, On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:22:26PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > As such, this "should" prevents *many* packages to meet 3.8.3 for > > > Standards-Version. You may thus want to check things carefully..:) > > An inter

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > po4a > > I did start such a guide via my blog during DebConf8 > > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/129-po4a-translation-support-from-any-format.html Would you (or anyone else) be willing to turn this into an a

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-04, Anthony Towns wrote: > So make it easy to maintain... Attached is an example converting it to > yaml with python table generation, coping with waivers. I deployed that now. Result available on [1], still quite some question marks, though. Kind regards, Philipp Kern [1] http://re

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the > > > original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with > > > warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the > > > original

development plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-16 Thread Marc Brockschmidt
Heya, As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be possible in this time frame. So, to find out when releasing would w

Re: GnuPG 1.4.10 RC1 available from Debian Experimental

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Leidert
Forwarding to debian-devel too. > Hi, > > The recent release candidate 1 for GnuPG 1.4.10 has been packaged and > uploaded > to Debian's "experimental" distribution, in order to facilitate testing. If > you wish, please try it out and of course report bugs found. All cautions > around release

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:44:33AM +0200, Michal ??iha?? wrote: > Dne Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:31:09 +0800 > Paul Wise napsal(a): > > > Could the i18n team write something about the technical details of > > doing translated manual pages the "right way" that could be shown to > > upstreams and p

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Christian, as the one originally suggesting this I guess I might add something. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:49:13AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Before people "blindly" update their Standards-Version, I deeply > suggest looking at this item: > > > * Localized man pages should either b

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Future of mole-generated symbols files, maintainer needed

2009-08-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, I'm looking for someone to take over the maintenance of the mole worker that generates symbols files, example: http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols?pkgname=libx11-6 It's not much code and it's all in the qa SVN but it requires a better place to run (currently it runs on alioth:~he

Bug#541777: ITP: tegaki-train -- training program of tegaki project

2009-08-16 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: tegaki-train Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://www.tegaki.org/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : training program of tegaki project

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:31:09 +0800 Paul Wise napsal(a): > Could the i18n team write something about the technical details of > doing translated manual pages the "right way" that could be shown to > upstreams and promoted via lwn.net, blogs and similar? I wanted to do > translated manual page

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:31:09 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Before people "blindly" update their Standards-Version, I deeply > > suggest looking at this item: > > > >>   * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the > >>

Bug#541771: ITP: tegaki-tools -- tools for tegaki project

2009-08-16 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: tegaki-tools Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://www.tegaki.org/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : tools for tegaki project Tegaki is

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Christian Perrier wrote: > Before people "blindly" update their Standards-Version, I deeply > suggest looking at this item: > >>   * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the >>     original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either wi

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Before people "blindly" update their Standards-Version, I deeply suggest looking at this item: > * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the > original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with > warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in