Package: haskell-arrows Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n Hi!
Recently all the package descriptions of the libghc-* packages were modified. The change is basically the same for every package and it is the merging of 2 previously different paragraphs in only 1 paragraph. This is a major problem for the activity of the localization teams who are working on the DDTP (Debian Description Translation Project). It is not only that we have to retranslate all those descriptions (we are used to follow a moving target and constantly retranslate things). With the previous 2 paragraph structure, a first paragraph was common and shared among all the -doc, -dev, and -prof packages. This meant that we only had to translate one of the 3 forms once and it was automatically used for all the translations, thus making us do less work but also guaranteeing consistency among all the translation. The same thing was true, though in a much smaller scale, in every triplet of -dev, -doc, -prof packages that shared the second paragraph with information specific to that triplet. Since the DDTP works on a paragraph level, now each description is made up by a different paragraph and each description has to be completely translated from scratch. This dramatically increases, not only our work, but also the chances of inconsistencies and mistakes in the translations of each package description. If there is not an important reason for the recent change, I (dare I say "we", as the Italian localization team at least?) would strongly suggest to go back to the 2-paragraphs structure for the package descriptions of the libghc-* packages. Although I am opening this bug only on haskell-arrows, please note that this is true for all the libghc-*-{dev,doc,prof} packages. Thanks, beatrice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org