Hi Daniel,

Daniel Kahn Gillmor schreef op ma 20-02-2017 om 16:02 [-0500]:
> Hi Frans--
> 

> I'm a bit confused -- the version of libreswan in debian unstable
> actually has no debconf questions.  Upstream has a (stale, old) debian/
> directory that they ship, which does have a bunch of debconf stuff, but
> we do not use that at all in debian.

Just to clarify a bit: I rely on
https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po-debconf/nl to find out what
packages need some attention as far as it comes to translation of
debconf massages.
This page (and the equivalent pages for other languages) is generated by
collecting data from packages sources. As soon as in a packages source
tree an outdated debian/po/nl.po file is found, this is reflected on the
web page. The source scanning system can't figure out that for your
package the debian/po directory is obsolete while it is still there. 


> i feel bad that you spent your time translating strings from upstream
> that we don't need, though :/ I wish i could have done something
> different so that your contributions to debian would have helped more
> people.

Never mind. No need to feel bad, but I appreciate you caring.

> 
> Is there some way that i could improve the debian packaging (or could
> encourage upstream to do) to make this kind of confusion less likely to
> happen in the future?

I don't know if it is possible to remove /debian/po from your sources.
That would prevent the scanbot from misinterpreting the situation.

> 
> thanks for your work localizing debian!

Thanks to you for helping making Debian worthwhile.

> 
> Regards,
> 
>        --dkg

-- 
Regards,
Frans

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