[pkg-ggz-maintainers] GGZ and gnome-games

[Josef Spillner]

'lut,

Am Samstag, 7. April 2007 18:28 schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> As I needed them to prepare gnome-games anyway, I have made some 0.0.14
> packages with these modifications. They are available at
> http://people.debian.org/~joss/packages/

We already have experimental 0.0.14 packages in our SVN. If there is an 
experimental-NMU going to happen, there should *not* be a fork of these 
packages, but instead the changes should be team-maintained in our SVN in 
pkg-ggz on Alioth. In the past, the packages were already collectively 
maintained by Peter and me, and uploaded by him since I'm not a DD. Thus it 
would be wiser to join pkg-ggz and become an uploader if you want a better 
alignment of GGZ Debian packages with GGZ upstream version.

Since the Debian packages should be based on GGZ's 0.0.14 branch, we have to 
get all the translations into the branch, and then cleanly build the packages 
from it.

> Feel free to re-use them, or I can upload them to experimental if you
> want. In all cases it would be nice to do it quickly, because they are
> holding gnome-games which needs 0.0.14, and they need to go through NEW.

I do not like the modifications of the German translations in ggzcore. They 
effectively swap the non-formal form for the formal form. However, in all of 
GGZ we use the non-formal form by default. If the GNOME policy is to use the 
formal form, then the changes only need to be in ggz-gtk since ggzcore 
messages will only be shown as a fallback.

The copyrights are also incorrect. They date back to 1998, when GGZ didn't 
even exist yet.

Finally, if we want to introduce new -data packages, this should also be 
discussed beforehand, there were some issues with them in the past. I'm going 
to look at the translations today to speed up the process a bit.
That isn't to say that your work is bad, in fact it is welcome, but it 
shouldn't be uploaded without further changes.

Josef

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