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My last call, a bit alarming about some languages becoming candidates for being deactivated in D-I had some results.

A few teams updated at least sublevels 1 and 2 so that their language is "safe".

Still, If I follow the policy we chose in D-I, I should deactivate languages that are not complete for what we call "sublevel 1" and "sublevel 2" in code Debian Installer.

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate (stats in parenthesis are those in these sublevels, respectively):

• Amharic (9f59u, 14f17u)
• Belarusian (1f in sublevel 1 only!)
• Welsh (54f118u, 32f47u)
• Basque (4u, 1f)
• Galician (24f42u, 6f9u)
• Hebrew (12f32u, 1f8u)
• Croatian (33f51u, 6f9u)
• Hungarian (2f1u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (34f79u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (29f57u, 6f22u)
• Lao (2f2u, 6f9u)
• Lithuanian (24f27u, 12f20u)
• Latvian (40f40u, 6f9u)
• Macedonian (2f4u, 6f9u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Marathi (2f2u in sublevel 1)
• Nepali (33f86u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (30f66u, 13f23u)
• Punjabi (28f58u, 1f)
• Romanian (2f1u, 1f)
• Slovenian (21f10u, 6f9u)
• Albanian (36f82u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f2u, 1f)
• Tagalog (35f86u, 24f39u)
• Vietnamese (22f11u, 8f10u)

That's way too many. So, before I blog everywhere that "Debian is dying" because I have to deactivate 20 languages in the installer...or before I blog that "Ubuntu steals our translators" (which is somehow true now, as half, if not more, of active translators are indeed interested in the Ubuntu installer to be translated, not the Debian one)....do something...or the Ubuntu installer will have 20 less languages..:-)

I just booked my flights for going to Managua next July.

I'll be leaving Paris on July 2nd, fly through Atlanta with Air France, then connect to Delta to Managua. A fairly simple trip that allows me to use my Air France miles..:-)

Elisabeth, my wife, will join in Managua around July 14th, then we'll spend two weeks visiting Nicaragua and leave back home on July 31st. That will be a wonderful trip.

See you in MGA!

Today, I did a big bunch of QA fixes on Debian Installer translations. The D-I "spellchecker", written years ago by Davide Viti, is still functional and very helpful to spot obvious mistakes.

You can find its results here.

Feel free to check your own language, particularly for "unknown words" (wrt aspell spellcheckers). There are many false positives (the spellcheck has the concept of exceptions for this, which explains why French has 0 errors...), but the spellchecker can already spot many typos and minor spelling errors. It also spots wrongly written variables, unbalanced quotes and parenthesis and a few other minor things.