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As of March 3rd 2007, all packages in Debian unstable that have
translatable debconf templates are translated into French [1].
This is the result of a continuous effort in the last years and
particularly the last 4.5 years, since the upload of po-debconf back
in September 2002 by Denis Barbier which enabled translators to use
gettext to handle debconf translations.
This achievement, combined with the translation of the Debian
Installer, is the guarantee that even a complete installation of a
Debian system with all possible packages, when run in French, will
only show French-speaking prompts to the user.
That effort is also ongoing for several other languages [2], thanks to
the commitment of the numerous contributors from the Debian
internationalisation community [3].
All thanks and credits for the achievement of the French localisation
are due to the French translators [5] as well as all Debian package
maintainers who have regularly fixed the dozens of bug reports sent
by translators over the years.
A last effort will now target the 100% mark for packages in
testing. The current status, as of [4], is 99.2%.
Links:
[1] http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/fr
[2] http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/rank
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/
[4] http://alioth.debian.org/~thuriaux-guest/tmp/testing.stats
[5] Contributors of the French translations:
Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Alexis Sukrieh
Aurelien Jarno
Aurelien Ricard
BUIRA Etienne
Cédric Favry
Christian Perrier
Christophe lincoln
Christophe Masson
Clément Stenac
Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Martin
Daniel Déchelotte
DELACOUR Guillaume
Denis Barbier
Emmanuel le Chevoir
Eric Madesclair
Florentin Duneau
Florent Usseil
Frédéric Bothamy
Frédéric Schütz
Frédéric Zulian
Gabriel Laurent
Gaetan CRAHAY
Gregory Colpart
Guilhelm Panaget
Guillaume Nault
Ivan Buresi
Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner
Jean-Christophe Champarnaud
Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Jean-Luc Coulon
Jean-Marc Chaton
Jérémie Corbier
Jose Luis Tallon
Julien Louis
Julien Rosal
Julien Valroff
Laszlo
Laurence Colombet
Laurent Pelecq
Le Mignant pierre
Ludovic Drolez
Ludovic Rousseau
Marco Presi
Martin Quinson
Michel Grentzinger
Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Nicolas Bertolissio
Olivier Gauwin
Olivier Trichet
Philippe Batailler
Pierre Machard
Rémi Pannequin
Séverine lombardo
Simon Paillard
Steve Langasek
Steve Petruzzello
Sylvain Archenault
Sylvain LE GALL
Thomas Capacci
Thomas Huriaux
Thomas Morin
Thomas Viehmann
Valéry Perrin
Xavier Luthi
Yannick Roehlly
Yves Rütschlé
Special credit to Steve Langasek who corrected this announcement
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