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And the packages that drove me nuts today are....root-system and mxallowd. Congratulations, people, you succeeded in turning me mad the same day by introducing debconf templates without any prior call for translations.

So, another move back for translation teams. As a reward for that, please expect an *immediate* l10n NMU proposal by /me.

Maybe, some day, people will *learn*. I can dream...

Besides that, these packages are packages indeed coming out of NEW. I should maybe talk with the ftpmasters and see if we can enforce maintainers who introduce new packages with debconf stuff to actually:

• ask for a templates review on d-l-english
• send a call for translations

Yesterday, I looked at the status of debconf translations for the three top languages in the current ranking.

French and German will make it definitely. I can fairly easily NMU packages which are slow, if needed (but for most that won't be needed, except maybe udev where Marco is.....somewhere). Of course, being the nasty person I am, I'll arrange so that French makes it before German..:-)

However, Portuguese will not, IMHO. There are way too many missing translations so even though they're 96% or so, I don't think I can successfully push enough packages at the same time. Apparently, the Portuguese team has been neglecting the *needed updates* for translations they already sent in the past.

Sorry, guys, you'll stay hosed around 96-99% probably. Unless some miracle happens.

In bug #480478, Robert Millan proposes adding the backports.org keyring package to Debian main so that our users benefit from it and may use packages from backports.org, if they want to.

As one would expect, it turns out that some zealots (did I say 'bigots'?) followed up to mention that bpo is not an official Debian service and why should we promote the use of non official services and blah and blah and blah. There was even a mention of freeness!

For ${DEITY}'s sake, could some people land back on earth? Even thoug bpo is not an official service, it is one of the best services that's offered to our users. And it is maintained By DDs and not the worse of us. It is even pretty useful for us, the very pure Debian developers...just run "dpkg -s git-code" on Alioth and make your mind...

I sincerely hope that the debian-backports-keyring will make its way in main. Really. We still have a few users who didn't switch to Ubuntu and we really should make some efforts to keep them unless we want indeed what some people seem to want: having the DD's as the only users of Debian.