Bug#378899: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#378899: passwd: [Intl:de] German man page out of sync

[Christian Perrier]

Helge Kreutzmann a écrit :

> Hello Christian,
> I talked to Simon, and he will update the man page in question the
> week after the next. What is the time schedule for passwd regarding
> Etch? As passwd is not essential, the freeze on the 31 does not apply,
> and an updated german man page should make it into etch, even if it
> comes, lets say, in the first days of august?
>

No problem. Anyway, even if shadow is frozen, translation updates will 
be allowed. We did so already for sarge. And we'll take care to forward 
them upstream of course.

Actually, shadow is part of the base system, so the freeze will happen 
quite soon.

>> No, unless the maintainer takes care of doing so. This is actually the
>> same for regular translations....or po-debconf stuff.
>
>
> Thats a pitty. At least for tetex Frank informs the translators when
> the template has changed and the translations need updating. Also ddtp
> used to send out update notifications when necessary. Ideally I'd
> envison something like the Debian web page, where I could quickly scan 
> for
> translations requiring updates (preferably limited to my ones). Well,
> I guess this goes way beyond this thread in a different wishlist bug.
>

This is among the goals we have for a centralized i18n/l10n 
infrastructure, yes