Re: unneeded translations?

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Hello Thomas,
Am Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 01:05:47PM +0100 schrieb Thomas Lange:
> >>>>> On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 11:27:08 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@sguazz=
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>     > Hello,
>     > I completely agree with Helge point of view. I see absolutely no
>     > reasons in deleting work done by other people. This already happened
> Just one example:
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> Yesterday I've delete the translation of the releases page for
> vietnamese, ukrainian, turkish, slovak, romanian, persian, japanese,
> indonesian, hungarian, galician, finnish, czech, croatian, bulgarian, ara=
bic

They were shown as current?

> The translators of these languages did not updated the important
> release page for years the those pages still listed bullseye or a
> much older release as the current stable release.
> Seven of them listed Debian 9 as stable.
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> Is there any better indication, that these translators are not active
> any more?

And?

Translators come and go. So, as a random example, a Czech translator
could come around and start working on the translations again. Then
(s)he could decide, if reusing the old version is easier then a
complete new translation.

In manpages-l10n we have several languages without active translators.
I was able to get several new ones aboard. Some reused the old
translations (which were present in the git repository, but not
shipped if too old), some discarded (some) translations and started
anew.=20

In my opinion *users* should either see a current translation or a
(partial) english text, but no outdated text. But behind the scenes,
it should be as easy as possible for future (and returning)
*translators* to pick up again.

And even just reading the old text (in the repository) might help, as
a translator can pick up the style, tone etc. of the previous
translation.

And, unfortunately, you still did not provide the rationale for
deletion. (Space? Performance?)

Greetings

           Helge

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