Intent to possibly NMU mdadm to fix pending po-debconf l10n bugs

[Christian Perrier]

Dear Debian maintainer,

The mdadm Debian package, which you are the maintainer of, has
pending bug report(s) which include translation updates or fixes
for po-debconf, namely bug number 463673 (and maybe other similar bugs).

Even if we're still far from the release of the next Debian version,
letting such bugs sleep in the BTS  is simply lowering
the chances that your package interaction with its users may be done
in something else than the English language. It is also not
encouraging for translators.

I announce the intention, as part of a more general action of the Debian
i18n Task Force to build and possibly upload a non-maintainer upload
for mdadm in order to fix this as well as all pending translations
for the debconf templates.

Of course, an upload made by you would even be better...:-)...and I
guess it will happen. This NMU intent is just my standard way to
propose maintainers some action..:)

Such changes are always harmless, which explains why I safely consider
building NMU's for such issues even though they're obviously non critical.

The schedule for the NMU (in case it happens, that is if you agree with it
or if I don't receive any answer in 14 days) is roughly the following:

 Sunday, April 06, 2008   : send this notice
 Sunday, April 20, 2008       : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you
                 (maintainer) CC'ed
 Wednesday, April 30, 2008       : deadline for receiving translation updates
 Thursday, May 01, 2008       : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/2-day
                 send the NMU patch to the BTS
 Saturday, May 03, 2008       : NMU reaches incoming

If you intent to upload yourself, please notify me so that I interrupt
the process on my side.

In case I upload an NMU, I will subscribe to the Package Tracking System for
mdadm and follow its life for 60 days after my NMU in order to fix
any issue potentially introduced by my upload.

Let me know, as soon as possible, if you have any kind of objection to this
process.

If you'd rather do the fix yourself, I will of course leave the package
alone. Same if you have reasons not to do the update now.

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