Re: Heads-up: Intrusive translated string changes

Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Apr 2026 18:35:43 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

On Mon, 2026-04-06 at 11:23:31 +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Am Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 04:47:25AM +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover:
> > On Fri, 2025-09-12 at 17:04:57 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > I've got queued for a long time a series of intrusive string changes
> > > that I'd like to flush out. Those include changes to error messages,
> > > --help output unification and refactoring, and at least man page
> > > sources reformatting. Given that we are early in the release cycle,
> > > this looks like an appropriate time.
> > 
> > As part of this I also went with the other pending changes, to unify
> > the coding style, for the entire code base, which has been a bit
> > tedious. But getting there now.
> > 
> > > I'll try to start flushing out things already today, and will try to
> > > end before next week ends. Will send another mail when the work has
> > > finished and translations can continue.
> > 
> > It seems I got entangled with multiple changes here, and going over the
> > entire code base multiple times has taken its time. Will try to finish
> > this soon, as this is blocking the current release, which I'd like to
> > get out soon.

> Do you have an ETA when we can restart translation? 
> 
> I'd really like to keep the translation incremental and avoid huge
> updates…

Sorry, time went by again. I'll try to finish cleaning up all the
pending changes, otherwise if I cannot manage to get that done in a
reasonably short amount of time, we can postpone that and then open up
translations until then.

Thanks,
Guillem