On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Pierre PANTAL�ON wrote: > I write you from France. > I have just finished my re-read of the Debian policy in french. > But in the french mailing list, it said that Debian policy can't be > published in another language that english. > > Do you think it's normal ? > Could we change this fact ?
What they probably might have tell you is that a translation of debian-policy may only be informative, not authoritative. That's the same thing it happens with the GPL. You may publish a translation yourself if you like, but it will never have the weight of the original english version.

