On 10/28/2010 01:04 AM, Jean Christophe André wrote: > Le 27/10/2010 23:21, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy a écrit : >> OK. So debconf templates have to be translated in Debian. >> Ubuntu-vi team, hear, hear! > > Yeah! And please keep the main HanoiLUG mailing-list in Cc: to ensure > they here it correctly! ;-) > > [about upstream first] > >> That's ideal but does not always work. "Upstream first" policy has a >> disavantage that there will be a delay (plus man power) to integrate >> changes back to downstream. Distro maintainers tend to update their >> own packages first for their own benefits, then merge upstream later. >> > > In fact, I had the occasion to work with some Ubuntu package > maintainers, and some told me to just "ping" them when there is a > translation update to merge downstream. > >> Not only translations, patches lingering at downstream for ages while >> they should be merged upstream. Perhaps the idea of distro (or >> upstream/downstream communication) could be refined. >> > > For me all this delay is more artificial than real. For most (well > constructed) packages we should just have to ask the maintainer to merge > the translation updates. Ideally this process would even be somewhat > automated, eg through a push-button in the PTS, which would allow only > one run per day. > > Arne, is there such procedure/tool in Debian for the most important > upstream projects (GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, …) ?
I'm not aware of any automated tool, but I guess the easiest way is to file a bug report against the package in question, since translation updates for debconf templates also get submitted this way. :) For Gnome, KDE, Mozilla and OO.o they should be aware of upstream updates already. For all other packages, a bug report would work. Many packages in Debian have 'watch' files to let maintainers know when a new upstream version is available. I guess most upstream translation updates should get in this way (in 'unstable' and 'testing' at least). Cheers Arne -- Arne Götje (高盛華) <a...@linux.org.tw> PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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