(forw) Packages not using po-debconf - more active actions to come

Christian Perrier · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 204

This was intended for being crossposted to -devel and -i18n but I
finally forgot to add -devel. Please followup to -i18n if you don't
mind.

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:54:42 +0100
From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
To: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org
Subject: Packages not using po-debconf - more active actions to come
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Bringin the power of gettext to debconf (namely "po-debconf") has been
by far one of the major improvements in Debian's i18n infrastructure
over last years (it appeared a few weeks after woody's release and
entered unstable on Oct 1st 2002).

Nearly all, if not all, translators agree that maintaining
translations for packages which do NOT use po-debconf is a real pain
and nearly impossible.

This is why a huge effort was put to have packages which use debconf
switch their templates files to the "new" po-debconf style, which
allows translators to handle their work with the familiar GNU gettext
tools.

We are now left with 102 packages which do not use po-debconf. Most
often these packages have no translation for their templates, or
translations which are highly outdated, making them useless.
Most often they are not very actively maintained, or even
orphaned. Sometimes, their maintainers simply do not care.

Martin Quinson, Michel Grentzinger, myself, André Luis Lopes and a few
other translators have reported bugs against these packages,
suggesting they switch to the "new" system, most often providing them
with a patch.

This is now time for action... Smile

. Similarly to what was done with
longstanding pending translations, I will start a "NMU campaign"
targeting these packages. This campaign will be made with the same
care for respecting maintainers work and gently interact with them
(this has proven efficient for old pending translations).
We will of course use this opportunity for adding some translations to
these packages..:-)

Of course, help on that matter is very welcomed (Luk, Martin, others...).

Please find below the alphabetical list of the relevant packages
(main, then contrib, then non-free).

I have not yet looked over the BTS for giving the bug numbers for "Please
switch to po-debconf" bug reports. This is still work to do.

The real work will probably not start before early or mid-March...and,
of course, not interfering with the release process will be in the
priorities.

Package list:

am-utils
anthy
asterisk-chan-misdn
blootbot
boa
bottlerocket
chdrv
cricket
cxref
ddclient
ddt
debian-edu-config
delo
diald
dict-gcide
diffmon
discover
dvipdfmx
efingerd
ez-ipupdate
fcron
filterproxy
freenet6
freetds
ftape
ftape-tools
ftpwatch
fvwm-shell
gcl
gclcvs
gdm
gidentd
haskell-mode
hearse
hunglish
hybserv
ifplugd
ispell-fi
jove
joystick
kerberos-configs
laptop-netconf
libapache-sessionx-perl
libdbd-sqlite-perl
libmail-bulkmail-perl
libroxen-imho
libsafe
lids-2.4
links-ssl
localeconf
lowmem
lsh
lukemftpd
mailgraph
mason
masqmail
mdctl
miscfiles
mlmmj
mod-mono
moobot
moviemate
mped
nagat
ndtpd
netkit-base
nn
ntop
php4-pecl-ps
php4-ps
prelude-nids
printbill
python-popy
radioclk
razzle
schoolbell
suck
tripwire
usb-discover
waproamd
webcalendar
x-symbol
xsp
zephyr
zope-docfindereverywhere
zope-loginmanager
zope-zshell

Contrib packages:

acl-installer
ccc
cfal
cfalrtl
cpml
cxml
cxx
daemontools-installer
libots
lw-per-installer
lw-pro-installer
lw-pro-installer-43
quake2-data

Non-free packages:

nttcp
qmail

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Tollef Fog Heen · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 169

* Christian Perrier

| Please find below the alphabetical list of the relevant packages
| (main, then contrib, then non-free).

... as usual, please include maintainer names with package lists like
this. (And thanks for assembling the list. :)

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Christian Perrier · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 204

Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen@err.no):

Lucas Wall · *nix forums beginner Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 5

On 02/16/05 07:00, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

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