Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:31:01AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > Putting localized databases after the debconf one seems to be a much > > > better solution, you t

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-20 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:31:01AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > Putting localized databases after the debconf one seems to be a much > > better solution, you then can skip all unwanted fields. > > How can we make this? In debco

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > Putting localized databases after the debconf one seems to be a much > better solution, you then can skip all unwanted fields. How can we make this? Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsup

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-19 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:17:35PM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: [...] > But this is a problem. The ddtp server don't know this information... > Have someone a solution? Right, I misunderstood your point. Putting localized databases after the debconf one seems to be a much better solution, you then

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:41:56AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:47:59AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > Owners: debconf/frontend > >What is 'Owners'? > > This is the list of questions bound to this template. > > >It must be in the file (or you ge

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-19 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:47:59AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: [...] > Owners: debconf/frontend >What is 'Owners'? This is the list of questions bound to this template. >It must be in the file (or you get: "Can't call >method "clearall" on an undefined value at >/usr/share/

l10n-packages (Was Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french)

2003-02-18 Thread Pierre Machard
Hi On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:08:16PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * Michael Bramer [Thu, Feb 13 2003, 01:31:17AM]: > > > > > gmc-i10n-es (all translations for the bin-package gmc (po, man-pages, > > >

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-18 Thread Martin Quinson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:08:16PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Michael Bramer [Thu, Feb 13 2003, 01:31:17AM]: > > > gmc-i10n-es (all translations for the bin-package gmc (po, man-pages, > >README-files, ...) > > gmc-i10n-de > > gmc-i10n-fr > > gmc-i10n-.. > >

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Michael Bramer [Thu, Feb 13 2003, 01:31:17AM]: > gmc-i10n-es (all translations for the bin-package gmc (po, man-pages, >README-files, ...) > gmc-i10n-de > gmc-i10n-fr > gmc-i10n-.. > > The bin package 'gmc' have a 'Suggests: gmc-i10n-*' like dependence and > th

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-15 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:04:32AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:24:27AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > > and that's it, you have access to all fr and de translations. > > > > Have you try it? > > Yes. > > > Will it work? > > Yes it works out of the box if y

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-15 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:24:27AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: [...] > > and that's it, you have access to all fr and de translations. > > Have you try it? Yes. > Will it work? Yes it works out of the box if your localized templates.dat files are up to date. Again I am not telling that debconf

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-15 Thread Michael Bramer
Hello (I cc to joeyh) On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:01:03PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:31:08AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > My dream: > > The package maintainer make only 'his' english templates file and > > upload the package to the archive. > > The

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-14 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:31:08AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: [...] > My dream: > The package maintainer make only 'his' english templates file and > upload the package to the archive. > The DDTP will catch all this new stuff, translate it all in 1-2 weeks > automagical into all languag

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:30:27PM +0100, Pierre Machard wrote: > [...] > > 3.) gettext avoid outdated translations, but IMHO TP don't inform the > > translator about changes etc. > > On that very point it's not true, for example, as a PO contributor > I recieve that kind of email : Thanks fo

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-14 Thread Pierre Machard
Hi, [...] > 3.) gettext avoid outdated translations, but IMHO TP don't inform the > translator about changes etc. On that very point it's not true, for example, as a PO contributor I recieve that kind of email : This email comes with a Subject which is very nice : Subject: texinfo-4.3c (99%,

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:01:58AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:31:08AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > > There are several problems: > > > * all msgids have a trailing space > > > * msgids are not unique > > > * encoding is not specified > > > > Oh, I kn

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-14 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:31:08AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: [...] > > There are several problems: > > * all msgids have a trailing space > > * msgids are not unique > > * encoding is not specified > > Oh, I know this all. This are the first files..., I will add/change this > points. This

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:09:58PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:15:07PM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > > What kind of debconf templates are you translating? The ddtp page is not > > > clear about that, and I seem to remember that you still translate debconf > >

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:00:36PM +0100, Pierre Machard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:31:17AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > The i10n packages have real package maintainers, we have a real > > BTS-package. Also we can make new i10n packages, without any delay from > > the bin packa

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-13 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:15:07PM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: [...] > > What kind of debconf templates are you translating? The ddtp page is not > > clear about that, and I seem to remember that you still translate debconf > > templates of the old generation, ie, the ones handled by debconf-utils

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-13 Thread Pierre Machard
Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:31:17AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: [...] > The i10n packages have real package maintainers, we have a real > BTS-package. Also we can make new i10n packages, without any delay from > the bin package maintainer. I would like to insist on the difficulies to join th

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Bramer
> > > Proposed solutions which does not work well IMHO: > > > - keep as we are: bugs are repported against the package containing it: > > > every translation team have to have the needed manpower to monitor > > > *all* > > > bugs submitted against *all* Debian package. > > > - keep as

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:56:54AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > the user can use apt pining to avoid some languages. > > > > The i10n packages have real package maintainers, we have a real > > BTS-package. Also we can make new i10n packages, without any delay from > > the bin package maintaine

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:31:17AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > So, what do you guys think ? > > > > To sum up my point, the best solution would be that translators become the > > same status inside Debian than maintainers. >

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-12 Thread Michael Bramer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > So, what do you guys think ? > > To sum up my point, the best solution would be that translators become the > same status inside Debian than maintainers. ack > One way to achieve that is that binary packages would contain not onl

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-12 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:12:51AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > Our reality is quite differente... we have quite few translators for a lot > > of resources and a centralized way to receive and store translation bugs > > is something that would help us a lot. > > > > Michael Brammer helped us a

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > To sum up my point, the best solution would be that translators become the > same status inside Debian than maintainers. If we have enough qualified ones, .. yes always but I doubt it. > One way to achieve that is that binary pack

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-02-03 Thread Martin Quinson
So, what do you guys think ? To sum up my point, the best solution would be that translators become the same status inside Debian than maintainers. One way to achieve that is that binary packages would contain not only data.tar.gz, but also data-XX.tar.gz (and maybe doc-XX.tar.gz, but that's ano

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-28 Thread Martin Quinson
Let's keep on debian-i18n until we (translators) all agree on what is needed. First of all, I changed my mind a bit, and now think that the right name for the pseudo package to be created should be qa-, with the language name being written with all letters, not iso code. I guess that it will make

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-28 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 at 22:53:52 +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:51:45AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:49:15PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > > > > I'm not convinced. Everything you say can be done perfectly well thru > > > mailing lists. > >

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
[Obscene CC list eliminated] On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:51:45AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:49:15PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > > > > Em Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:16:19 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:06:09 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:03:39PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > As coordinator of the french translation team, we would like to ask for the > > creation of a new pseudo package in the BTS. It wou

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-27 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:06:09PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: [...] > However, I _do_ see the need for a new BTS tag: 'translation'. This could > probably make package maintainer's life easier as well as PTS subscribers > to packages which only want to see translation bugs. Such

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:03:39PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > [debian-i18n CCed for obvious reason, debian-policy CCed because I'm not > sure anymore who decides which pseudo-package exists] > > Hello, > > As coordinator of the french translation team, we would like to ask for the > creatio

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-27 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:49:15PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > > Em Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:16:19 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > escreveu: > > > > > > Thanks for creating this pseudo module, or for indicating who I should > > > >

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:16:19 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > > > Thanks for creating this pseudo module, or for indicating who I should ask > > > if I'm wrong. > > > > Ask ftpmaster, they are responsible. Additionall

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-26 Thread André Filipe de Assunção e Brito
Maybe a bugzilla like system??? I think this is a great idea to users help with translations/translators. Can we talk about this in i10n-portuguese??? Em Sex, 2003-01-24 às 15:05, Gustavo Noronha Silva escreveu: > I like the idea. Translators also need to fix their bugs, and there's > currently n

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:16:19 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > Thanks for creating this pseudo module, or for indicating who I should ask > > if I'm wrong. > > Ask ftpmaster, they are responsible. Additionally, I think this pseudo > package is a waste. There is no l10n p

Re: Asking for a new pseudo package in the BTS: l10n-french

2003-01-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Martin Quinson wrote: > [debian-i18n CCed for obvious reason, debian-policy CCed because I'm not > sure anymore who decides which pseudo-package exists] > > Hello, > > As coordinator of the french translation team, we would like to ask for the > creation of a new pseudo packa