On July 30th, 2001, I received a mail from James Troup stating that I was a Debian developer, this 10 days after my Application Manager, namely Martin Michlmayr, sent his AM report. Summarizing these 10 years will be....interesting. Now that I'm on holidays, I'll try too cook something up. Sorry, folks, I completely forgot celebrating this last Saturday.

OK, I'll also blog about other DebConf activities, but I was just working on my sports software of choice and just summarized my running activities here in Banja Luka (it's 22h45 last day of Debconf). I finally broke my record of last year (where I ran 112 kilometers) by running 115 kilometers. However, that was in 12 days while I was only 10 full days in New-York. So that record is only partially broken. These 115km were run in 12h09', which leads to a pace of 9.5km/h or 6'18"/km or 10'13"/mile (hello, Dirk). Fairly slow, indeed. However, this or that may better explain..:-). The cumulated positive slope for these 115km has been around 2000 meters! Specifically, I had great fun today when No l and I decided to make a final round in the hills close to the Banj Brdo. For that 12km run, we shared a taxi to the start of the Banj Brdo road, to avoid 2km of boring run in Banja Luka streets, then made our way to nearly each and every path we could find. Of course, that should soon lead to a very well mapped area on Openstreetmap. As usual, when a DebConf ends, the area is much better maped than it was before it. Here, the city was too well mapped by local OSMers, so we had to go to the mountains..:-). On this sunny Saturday, doing what I call a real trail run, with mud, slopes, scratching vegetation, rocks.....was an incredibly great pleasure. Sharing this with No l was also great. Hopefully, running in Managua next year will be as much fun (but maybe really tricky because of the heat). See you there!

OK, I'll also blog about other DebConf activities, but I was just working on my sports software of choice and just summarized my running activities here in Banja Luka (it's 22h45 last day of Debconf). I finally broke my record of last year (where I ran 112 kilometers) by running 115 kilometers. However, that was in 12 days while I was only 10 full days in New-York. So that record is only partially broken. These 115km were run in 12h09', which leads to a pace of 9.5km/h or 6'18"/km or 10'13"/mile (hello, Dirk). Fairly slow, indeed. However, this or that may better explain..:-). The cumulated positive slope for these 115km has been around 2000 meters! Specifically, I had great fun today when No l and I decided to make a final round in the hills close to the . For that 12km run, we shared a taxi to the start of the Banj Brdo road, to avoid 2km of boring run in Banja Luka streets, then made our way to nearly each and every path we could find. Of course, that should soon lead to a very well mapped area on Openstreetmap. As usual, when a DebConf ends, the area is much better maped than it was before it. Here, the city was too well mapped by local OSMers, so we had to go to the mountains..:-). On this sunny Saturday, doing what I call a real trail run, with mud, slopes, scratching vegetation, rocks.....was an incredibly great pleasure. Sharing this with No l was also great. Hopefully, running in Managua next year will be as much fun (but maybe really tricky because of the heat). See you there!

It feels good to be at DebConf again, this time in Banja Luka. This is my fifth consecutive DebConf. Getting here was fairly painful; a flight from Split was delayed, so I had to get a later bus than planned from Zagreb. Still, I met a bunch of DebConf attendees getting the same bus, so at least there was conversation. Packaging-wise, I have been working on adding KiokuDB (and associated backends) into Debian. I wrote a patch for libossp-uuid-perl yesterday to fix a bug with its Data::UUID compatibility; this probably means I'll drop the Data::UUID ITP. Having looked at the code, I don't see how it can be easily fixed for multi-user systems. The Perl team's forthcoming move to git has come as a pleasant surprise; I've been trying out the new workflow. Earlier in the week I went running with bubulle et. al. - I must have missed the bit in the email where the very steep hill was mentioned. And the rain. So I had to slow down and turn around, and probably didn't quite do 15km in the end. :) Beer is half the price of Coca-Cola here. Awesome. So generally, I've been decompressing, and introspecting. The cafes are good for philosophical discussions; preferably when it's not raining. More later.

Debian mailing lists' standard policy is to allow posts from unsubscribed users. That of course fits our standards for opened development but has the drawback of allowing a lot of spam to reach our mailing lists. This spam also clutters the mailing lists archives. Since 2009, a working system allows removing spam from the mailing list archives. Today, I would like to put some light on the results of this system :

• Over one million nominations for spams (a "nomination" means that someone reporting that a said post is likely to be a spam mail)
• Nearly fourty thousand individual messages considered for review
• Nearly ALL of these processed by Sandro Tosi, leader of the tireless reviewers team. Let's bend at Sandro.
• Out of these, over thirty-three thousand messages classified as spam and removed from the archives

Results are impressive for mailing lists where a coordinated effort is done over time: the debian-boot mailing list (first coorindated effort, initiated by regretted Frans Pop), the Italian and French mailing lists. You want to help? You can. Reporting spam is as easy as reading Debian mailing lists. When you see a mail that you consider being a spam mail, just bounce it to report-listspam at lists dot debian dotte org. Don't forward it, you need to bounce it ("b" keyboard shortcut in mutt). Alternatively, you can check for this message on Debian mailing lists archives and hit the "Report as spam" button. If you're a Debian developer, you can help in reviewing nominated spam. It takes me about 20 minutes every week. Go to the spam review home page and register for an account there. Then, you'll be able to process through nominated posts. Once a given post is confirmed as spam by at least 3 reviewers with nobody else reporting it as "ham", it is removed the next week from the archive. Feel free to join the game and be part of the Debian moppers team!

Do I need to explain what is the Cheese and Wine (C&W) party? Still, if some of you need more information, please feel free to ask. The C&W7 wiki page now exists on DebConf wiki. Information will come there until the day of the C&W, which is scheduled for Tuesday July 26th, so the day before the planned daytrip, if I'm correct. C&W orga details are currently very vague, but the most important point is: start planning what YOU will be bringing for the event. Remember that the event is only successful when many of us manage to bring good stuff to share (preferrably cheese, wine...or other ethanol-improved beverages). If you think about something *else* than cheese, please feel free to bring it: just try to have it representative of your part of the world...or a part of the world you love. Any further questions can be asked in the debconf-discuss mailing list or in #debconf channel on irc.debian.org

I sponsored the upload of fonts-anonymous-pro prepared by Rog rio Brito. This fixed-width font is especially designed for people who write code, for instance by making clear differences between characters such as O and 0, or I, l and 1. I fixed a few glitches in various l10n scripts related to D-I (those tthigns that run daily, for which I receive a daily mail). They were the consequence of Alioth migration and I omitted to fix them until now....mumbling every morning about the scripts' noisy output..:-) I worked on only one bug for samba (doh). This was #631118 which I forwarded upstream in order to get it fixed in 3.5 series (even if 3.6 is due out soon and will be what we target for wheezy). I tried to follow the flow of translations/reviews in DDTP for French. The activity is high, here, with about 10 packages translated every day (most often packages I target for the team...by using high-popcon stats). We even had a big bump during the week-end when Georges Khaznadar (who is very active when it comes at educative software) initiated the translation of many edu-related packages (many of which he maintains himself). That's about it. Quiet week, indeed with more time invested in paid work, including during my spare time..:-). And also a week-end in our country house in Normandy, which usually means more gardening than hacking.

I uploaded a new upstream version of the ttf-oldstandard font. The new version is a real 2.2 while the former was numbered 2.02 by upstream but got accidentally numbered 2.2 by us, packagers.. The occasion was good and I renamed the source package to follow the "yes-yes-yes-soon-to-be-published" fonts packaging policy for naming. The new package is "fonts-oldstandard". A new upstream version of samba was released and I packaged it just after the last 3.5.8 package entered testing. Samba is now 3.5.9 in unstable. I should work on backporting (for backport.debian.org) what's entered in testing, by the way. I sent l10n NMU proposals for unattended-upgrades, memtest86+, cacti. I also NMUed memtest86 (still in DELAYED).

I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but now I'll try to summarize the story of a great surprise and a big moment for me. All this started when my wife Elizabeth and my son Jean-Baptiste wanted to do something special for my 50th birthday. So, it indeed all started months ago, probably early March or something (I don't yet have all the details). Jean-Baptiste described this well on the web site, so I won't go again into details, but basically, this was about getting birthday wishes from my "free software family" in, as you might guess, as many languages as possible. Elizabeth brought the original idea and JB helped her by setting up the website and collecting e-mail addresses of people I usually work with: he grabbed addresses from PO files on Debian website, plus some in his own set of GPG signatures and here we go. And then he started poking dozens of you folks in order to get your wishes for this birthday. Gradually, contributions accumulated on the website, with many challenges for them: be sure to get as many people as possible, poking and re-poking all those FLOSS people who keep forgetting things... It seems that poking people is something that's probably in the Perrier's genes! And they were doing all this without me noticing. As usually in Debian, releasing on time is a no-no. So, it quickly turned out that having everything ready by April 2nd wouldn't be possible. So, their new goal was offering this to me on Pentecost Sunday, which was yesterday. And...here comes the gift. Aha, this looks like a photo album. Could it be a "50 years of Christian" album? But, EH, why is that pic of me, with the red Debconf5 tee-shirt (that features a world map) and a "bubulle" sign, in front of the book? But, EH EH EH, what the .... are doing these word by H0lger, then Fil, then Joey doing on the following pages? And only then, OMG, I discover the real gift they prepared. 106, often bilingual, wishes from 110 people (some were couples!). 18 postcards (one made of wood). 45 languages. One postcard with wishes from nearly every distro representatives at LinuxTag 2011. Dozens of photos from my friends all around the world. All this in a wonderful album. I can't tell what I said. Anyway, JB was shooting a video, so...we'll see. OK, I didn't cry...but it wasn't that far and emotion was really really intense. Guys, ladies, gentlemen, friends....it took me a while to realize what you contributed to. It took me the entire afternoon to realize the investment put by Elizabeth and JB (and JB's sisters support) into this. Yes, as many of you wrote, I have an awesome family and they really know how to share their love. I also have an awesome virtual family all around the world. Your words are wholeheartedly appreciated and some were indeed much much much appreciated. Of course, I'll have the book in Banja Luka so that you can see the result. I know (because JB and Elizabeth told me) that many of you were really awaiting to see how it would be received (yes, that includes you, in Germany, who I visited in early May!!!). Again, thank you so much for this incredible gift. Thank you Holger Levsen, Phil Hands, Joey Hess, Lior Kaplan, Martin Michlmayr, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta, Kenshi "best friend" Muto, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel, Ana Carolina Comandulli (5 postcards!), Stefano Zacchiroli (1st contribution received by JB, of course), Gunnar Wolf, Enriiiiiico Zini, Clytie Siddall, Frans Pop (by way of Clytie), Tenzin Dendup, Otavio Salvador, Neil McGovern, Konstantinos Margaritis, Luk Claes, Jonas Smedegaard, Pema Geyleg, Meike "sp tzle queen" Reichle, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Torsten Werner, "nette BSD" folks, CentOS Ralph and Brian, Fedora people, SUSE's Jan, Ubuntu's Lucia Tamara, Skolelinux' Paul, Rapha l Hertzog, Lars Wirzenius, Andrew McMillan (revenge in September!), Yasa Giridhar Appaji Nag (now I know my name in Telugu), Amaya Rodrigo, St phane Glondu, Martin Krafft, Jon "maddog" Hall (and God save the queen), Eddy Petri or, Daniel Nylander, Aiet Kolkhi, Andreas "die Katze geht in die K che, wunderbar" Tille, Paul "lets bend the elbow" Wise, Jordi "half-marathon in Banja Luka" Mallach, Steve "as ever-young as I am" Langasek, Obey Arthur Liu, YAMANE Hideki, Jaldhar H. Vyas, Vikram Vincent, Margarita "Bronx cross-country queen" Manterola, Patty Langasek, Aigars Mahinovs (finding a pic *with* you on it is tricky!), Thepittak Karoonboonyanan, Javier "nobody expects the Spanish inquisition" Fern ndez-Sanguino, Varun Hiremath, Moray Allan, David Moreno Garza, Ralf "marathon-man" Treinen, Arief S Fitrianto, Penny Leach, Adam D. Barrat, Wolfgang Martin Borgert, Christine "the mentee overtakes the mentor" Spang, Arjuna Rao Chevala, Gerfried "my best contradictor" Fuchs, Stefano Canepa, Samuel Thibault, Eloy "first samba maintainer" Par s, Josip Rodin, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Steve McIntyre, Guntupalli Karunakar, Jano Gulja , Karolina Kali , Ben Hutchings, Matej Kova i , Khoem Sokhem, Lisandro "I have the longest name in this list" Dami n Nicanor P rez-Meyer, Amanpreet Singh Alam, H ctor Or n, Hans Nordhaugn, Ivan Mas r, Dr. Tirumurti Vasudevan, John "yes, Kansas is as flat as you can imagine" Goerzen, Jean-Baptiste "Piwet" Perrier, Elizabeth "I love you" Perrier, Peter Eisentraut, Jesus "enemy by nature" Climent, Peter Palfrader, Vasudev Kamath, Miroslav "Chicky" Ku e, Mart n Ferrari, Ollivier Robert, Jure uhalev, Yunqiang Su, Jonathan McDowell, Sampada Nakhare, Nayan Nakhare, Dirk "rendez-vous for Chicago marathon" Eddelbuettel, Elian Myftiu, Tim Retout, Giuseppe Sacco, Changwoo Ryu, Pedro Ribeoro, Miguel "oh no, not him again" Figueiredo, Ana Guerrero, Aur lien Jarno, Kumar Appaiah, Arangel Angov, Faidon Liambotis, Mehdi Dogguy, Andrew Lee, Russ Allbery, Bj rn Steensrud, Mathieu Parent, Davide Viti, Steinar H. Gunderson, Kurt Gramlich, Vanja Cvelbar, Adam Conrad, Armi Be irovi , Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Joerg "dis shuld be REJECTed" Jaspert and Luca Capello. Let's say it gain:

• Danke
• Thank you
• (RTL or not?) / toda
• Gracias
• / arigat
• / n ndi
• Obrigado
• Grazie
• C m n
• Kadin chey la
• / Efharisto
• Dank je wel
• Tak
• D ngge
• Merci
• Kiitos
• Tika hoki
• / dhanyavaadhamulu
• Thank you and God save the Queen
• Mul umesc
• Tack
• / didi madloba
• Gr cies
• Dakujem
• / Aabhar
• / Dhanyavadagalu
• Paldies
• / kop khun krap
• Terima kasih
• Hvala (hr)
• / Dhanyavad
• / Hvala (sr)
• Hvala (sl)
• / Akun
• / Sukriya
• Takk
• / Nandri
• Maki biyen jianbakik
• D kuji
• / Xiexie
• / Aabhari aahe
• Faleminderit
• / Kam sah ham ni da
• / Blagodaram
• / Xiexie
• Hvala (bs)

Quiet week, indeed. I spent part of the week-end of 4-5 June to re-setup my server at home after receiving the new box from my ISP (Free). This box can no longer be configured as an Ethernet bridge but only as a router. As a consequence, my home box no longer has my public IP on one of its Ethernet interfaces, which changes several details in the local configuration. The result is finally an hopefully safer setup, as the box now filters everything but port 22, 25, 80, 443, 993, 2317 (geneweb) while the server has similar filters in its iptables. Two firewalls instead of one. I did some bug cleaning on samba, again. The bug count should lower again in upcoming releases, but we probably reached a point where it can't go further down. Half of these are reported upstream. I should maybe check with them if they're considered fixed, pointless or just ignored as of now..:-) On Wednesday 8th, I released a samba 3.6.0rc2 package less than 12 hours after upstream published it. Yet another broken record..but it was easy as the package was completely straightforward. During the week, the French team worked on several DDTP translations now that the DDTSS is repaired (and apparently much more stable). I also sent an update for devscripts mannpages French translation. I will resume activity on l10n NMU. It's now time to think about it. Letting things pile up without nagging maintainers just leads to l10n stats slowly decreasing. We're aiming at 100% for debconf translation for 7 languages, so the wheezy freeze time will be difficult. Better start now. The most difficult part is having maintainers understand that, yes, we should care THAT early in the release process. The most complete language as of now (Russian) is already missing nearly 100 strings in about 12 packages (those that changed/introduced tempaltes recently). I have to prod these maintainers now.

My favourite city viewed by my favourite film director. You can blindly go and see "Midnight in Paris" by Woody Allen. Great moment, superb music, great story and unique way of filming.

So Christian likes to give out awards for the best bug reporting estimates and also does statistics about developers per capita. I've got at least one area where he's on top:

The award for the introduction of the highest version into the archive goes to Nicolas Spalinger and Christian Perrier for ttf-sil-gentium. The use of a date as an epoch is amazing. The runner-up is Joey Hess with intercal (soon to be gone from Debian altogether), reusing the version number in the epoch. Somehow that fits with the crazy language the package contains.

The award for the most minimal version goes to Guido G nther with libvirt-glib. It's a number less than zero but still not negative. The runner-up is Raphael Geissert with switchsh which just happens to use 2007 as a checkout date.

I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but now I'll try to summarize the story of a great surprise and a big moment for me. All this started when my wife Elizabeth and my son Jean-Baptiste wanted to do something special for my 50th birthday. So, it indeed all started months ago, probably early March or something (I don't yet have all the details). Jean-Baptiste described this well on the web site, so I won't go again into details, but basically, this was about getting birthday wishes from my "free software family" in, as you might guess, as many languages as possible. Elizabeth brought the original idea and JB helped her by setting up the website and collecting e-mail addresses of people I usually work with: he grabbed addresses from PO files on Debian website, plus some in his own set of GPG signatures and here we go. And then he started poking dozens of you folks in order to get your wishes for this birthday. Gradually, contributions accumulated on the website, with many challenges for them: be sure to get as many people as possible, poking and re-poking all those FLOSS people who keep forgetting things... It seems that poking people is something that's probably in the Perrier's genes! And they were doing all this without me noticing. As usually in Debian, releasing on time is a no-no. So, it quickly turned out that having everything ready by April 2nd wouldn't be possible. So, their new goal was offering this to me on Pentecost Sunday, which was yesterday. And...here comes the gift. Aha, this looks like a photo album. Could it be a "50 years of Christian" album? But, EH, why is that pic of me, with the red Debconf5 tee-shirt (that features a world map) and a "bubulle" sign, in front of the book? But, EH EH EH, what the .... are doing these word by H0lger, then Fil, then Joey doing on the following pages? And only then, OMG, I discover the real gift they prepared. 106, often bilingual, wishes from 110 people (some were couples!). 18 postcards (one made of wood). 45 languages. One postcard with wishes from nearly every distro representatives at LinuxTag 2011. Dozens of photos from my friends all around the world. All this in a wonderful album. I can't tell what I said. Anyway, JB was shooting a video, so...we'll see. OK, I didn't cry...but it wasn't that far and emotion was really really intense. Guys, ladies, gentlemen, friends....it took me a while to realize what you contributed to. It took me the entire afternoon to realize the investment put by Elizabeth and JB (and JB's sisters support) into this. Yes, as many of you wrote, I have an awesome family and they really know how to share their love. I also have an awesome virtual family all around the world. Your words are wholeheartedly appreciated and some were indeed much much much appreciated. Of course, I'll have the book in Banja Luka so that you can see the result. I know (because JB and Elizabeth told me) that many of you were really awaiting to see how it would be received (yes, that includes you, in Germany, who I visited in early May!!!). Again, thank you so much for this incredible gift. Thank you Holger Levsen, Phil Hands, Joey Hess, Lior Kaplan, Martin Michlmayr, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta, Kenshi "best friend" Muto, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel, Ana Carolina Comandulli (5 postcards!), Stefano Zacchiroli (1st contribution received by JB, of course), Gunnar Wolf, Enriiiiiico Zini, Clytie Siddall, Frans Pop (by way of Clytie), Tenzin Dendup, Otavio Salvador, Neil McGovern, Konstantinos Margaritis, Luk Claes, Jonas Smedegaard, Pema Geyleg, Meike "sp tzle queen" Reichle, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Torsten Werner, "nette BSD" folks, CentOS Ralph and Brian, Fedora people, SUSE's Jan, Ubuntu's Lucia Tamara, Skolelinux' Paul, Rapha l Hertzog, Lars Wirzenius, Andrew McMillan (revenge in September!), Yasa Giridhar Appaji Nag (now I know my name in Telugu), Amaya Rodrigo, St phane Glondu, Martin Krafft, Jon "maddog" Hall (and God save the queen), Eddy Petri or, Daniel Nylander, Aiet Kolkhi, Andreas "die Katze geht in die K che, wunderbar" Tille, Paul "lets bend the elbow" Wise, Jordi "half-marathon in Banja Luka" Mallach, Steve "as ever-young as I am" Langasek, Obey Arthur Liu, YAMANE Hideki, Jaldhar H. Vyas, Vikram Vincent, Margarita "Bronx cross-country queen" Manterola, Patty Langasek, Aigars Mahinovs (finding a pic *with* you on it is tricky!), Thepittak Karoonboonyanan, Javier "nobody expects the Spanish inquisition" Fern ndez-Sanguino, Varun Hiremath, Moray Allan, David Moreno Garza, Ralf "marathon-man" Treinen, Arief S Fitrianto, Penny Leach, Adam D. Barrat, Wolfgang Martin Borgert, Christine "the mentee overtakes the mentor" Spang, Arjuna Rao Chevala, Gerfried "my best contradictor" Fuchs, Stefano Canepa, Samuel Thibault, Eloy "first samba maintainer" Par s, Josip Rodin, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Steve McIntyre, Guntupalli Karunakar, Jano Gulja , Karolina Kali , Ben Hutchings, Matej Kova i , Khoem Sokhem, Lisandro "I have the longest name in this list" Dami n Nicanor P rez-Meyer, Amanpreet Singh Alam, H ctor Or n, Hans Nordhaugn, Ivan Mas r, Dr. Tirumurti Vasudevan, John "yes, Kansas is as flat as you can imagine" Goerzen, Jean-Baptiste "Piwet" Perrier, Elizabeth "I love you" Perrier, Peter Eisentraut, Jesus "enemy by nature" Climent, Peter Palfrader, Vasudev Kamath, Miroslav "Chicky" Ku e, Mart n Ferrari, Ollivier Robert, Jure uhalev, Yunqiang Su, Jonathan McDowell, Sampada Nakhare, Nayan Nakhare, Dirk "rendez-vous for Chicago marathon" Eddelbuettel, Elian Myftiu, Tim Retout, Giuseppe Sacco, Changwoo Ryu, Pedro Ribeoro, Miguel "oh no, not him again" Figueiredo, Ana Guerrero, Aur lien Jarno, Kumar Appaiah, Arangel Angov, Faidon Liambotis, Mehdi Dogguy, Andrew Lee, Russ Allbery, Bj rn Steensrud, Mathieu Parent, Davide Viti, Steinar H. Gunderson, Kurt Gramlich, Vanja Cvelbar, Adam Conrad, Armi Be irovi , Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Joerg "dis shuld be REJECTed" Jaspert and Luca Capello. Let's say it gain:

• Danke
• Thank you
• (RTL or not?) / toda
• Gracias
• / arigat
• / n ndi
• Obrigado
• Grazie
• C m n
• Kadin chey la
• / Efharisto
• Dank je wel
• Tak
• D ngge
• Merci
• Kiitos
• Tika hoki
• / dhanyavaadhamulu
• Thank you and God save the Queen
• Mul umesc
• Tack
• / didi madloba
• Gr cies
• Dakujem
• / Aabhar li> / Dhanyavadagalu
• Paldies
• / kop khun krap
• Terima kasih
• Hvala (hr)
• / Dhanyavad
• / Hvala (sr)
• Hvala (sl)
• / Akun
• / Sukriya
• Takk
• / Nandri
• Maki biyen jianbakik
• D kuji
• / Xiexie
• / Aabhari aahe
• Faleminderit
• / Kam sah ham ni da
• / Blagodaram
• / Xiexie
• Hvala (bs)

This is a follow-up on TDebs with some detail of how existing packages can be adapted to support TDebs.

$ cat debian/package-tdeb.tdeb

[gettextdir] po
[gettextname] package
[po4apodir] doc/po
[po4amandir] doc/package/man/
[po4acommand] po4a-build


What's happening then? Well, the first thing to take into account is that a lot of the values for these settings will be dictated by upstream, which is why it is necessary for maintainers to add this information as a support file in debian/. I tried determining all this information automatically but the script got far too long and still was far from complete.

• gettextdir - usually po but some upstream packages can support multiple po generation, so this allows for those.
• gettextname - the hardest thing to identify reliably, this is the name of the files to be installed in /usr/share/locale/lang/LC_MESSAGES/ and the name of the of the POT file.
• po4apodir - po4a is for documentation translation support, which is more variable, so a po4acommand field is available too.

Other changes
The (currently unsupported in Debian) XC-Package-Type: tdeb option is used in debian/control to mark a new or existing package as a TDeb. To use an existing package, it must comply with the rules for a TDeb including that it must be Architecture: all. The other rules centre around build issues. If any of the files in the existing package would require execution of any part of the normal build process of the package, these would have to be moved out of the package before that package could be a TDeb. The reason is that TDeb generation by translators needs to not require a full build environment for every individual package and must not risk modifying package contents in ways which are related to the build environment. So, unchanged images and other architecture-independent files are OK, any files which need build-dependencies are a problem. I don't know how many packages there are out there with such files. If you have a -data or -common package which contains translated data and that package also includes architecture-independent files, I'd be interested in knowing the name of the packages involved. If those packages also include files which are generated or modified within the package build, I'll be particularly interested in knowing about those source packages.
debconf
The most common use of TDebs during a release cycle is probably going to be debconf template updates by Christian and these are handled without needing a listing in the .tdeb file.
Other formats
I'm looking at QtLinguist support and it should be fairly straightforward using the .tdeb file arrangement.

Once that's done (in a branch, please - these can't be uploaded yet), the package can be tested with the soon-to-be-uploaded emdebian-tdeb package. The old content has been moved into the emdebian-grip-server package and the dependencies of the old version stripped back. The package contains two scripts dpkg-gentdeb and dh_gentdeb which I hope to get included into the respective packages in time for Wheezy. The idea will be that build systems (dh7, CDBS, debhelper-plain etc.) includes a call to the relevant script. (dh_ is just a wrapper around dpkg- in this case). This would allow maintainers to create the first TDeb, get that through NEW and then the fun starts. Once the translation mechanism is set up, I would like a nominated person (likely to be Christian if he agrees) to co-ordinate translation updates for particular packages to allow for a single upload including updates for many translations. This would be package_version+t1_all.tdeb and an appropriate .diff.gz or debian.tar.gz. No binary upload, no impact on testing migrations.

This is mostly theory right now but the scripts do exist in Emdebian SVN.

Still more testing to do but I hope to upload these scripts to unstable in the next few days.

So, I just got this surprise by my beloved ones. I'm a little bit too moved right now to write down something coherent but, at least I would like to say THANK YOU to all those of you who contributed to it. And, yes, I'll have the book with me at DC11, so you can admire Elizabeth's work for collecting all these tiny bits of friendship from all around the world...and JB's commitment to make all this happen with her. He's sitting close to me right now and joins me for these thanks. You made my day, ladies and gentlemen. Bubulle

See comments at the end about this 3rd version This is time again for yet another bubulle game: counting the number of developers per country. I already published such analysis in 2010 and 2009. So, here we are with the June 2011 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.

Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
June 2011: rank now

Code	Name	Population	Act Dev	Dev	Act/Million	Dev/Million	2009	2010	June 2011
fi	Finland	5374781	21	31	3,91	5,77	1	1	1
ch	Switzerland	7866500	21	26	2,67	3,31	2	2	2
mq	Martinique	397730	1	1	2,51	2,51			3
no	Norway	4964500	12	15	2,42	3,02	5	4	4
nz	New Zealand	4393500	10	15	2,28	3,41	4	3	5
ie	Ireland	4470700	10	13	2,24	2,91	13	9	6
se	Sweden	9354462	19	35	2,03	3,74	3	6	7
lu	Luxemburg	511840	1	1	1,95	1,95	8	5	8
de	Germany	81802000	155	221	1,89	2,7	7	7	9
at	Austria	8404252	15	25	1,78	2,97	6	8	10
fr	France	63136180	91	119	1,44	1,88	12	12	11
au	Australia	22632213	31	57	1,37	2,52	9	10	12
be	Belgium	11007020	15	17	1,36	1,54	10	11	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62008048	67	106	1,08	1,71	14	14	14
nl	Netherlands	16674600	18	37	1,08	2,22	11	13	15
dk	Denmark	5564219	6	10	1,08	1,8	17	17	16
ca	Canada	34480000	27	57	0,78	1,65	15	15	17
hr	Croatia	4429078	3	3	0,68	0,68	20	18	18
es	Spain	46030109	31	51	0,67	1,11	16	16	19
lt	Lithuania	3225346	2	2	0,62	0,62	28	19	20
cz	Czech Rep	10540748	6	6	0,57	0,57	21	20	21
it	Italy	60605053	33	47	0,54	0,78	23	22	22
bg	Bulgaria	7351254	4	4	0,54	0,54	25	23	23
il	Israel	7602400	4	6	0,53	0,79	24	24	24
us	USA	308745538	162	364	0,52	1,18	19	21	25
hu	Hungary	9979000	5	11	0,5	1,1	18	25	26
lv	Latvia	2245357	1	1	0,45	0,45	26	26	27
uy	Uruguay	3494382	1	2	0,29	0,57	22	27	28
jp	Japan	127960000	33	46	0,26	0,36	30	28	29
pl	Poland	38186860	9	13	0,24	0,34	29	29	30
cr	Costa Rica	4253897	1	1	0,24	0,24	31	30	31
pt	Portugal	10647763	2	4	0,19	0,38	27	32	32
sk	Slovakia	5429763	1	1	0,18	0,18	32	31	33
gr	Greece	11305118	2	3	0,18	0,27	33	38	34
ar	Argentina	40091359	7	9	0,17	0,22	34	33	35
sv	El Salvador	6134000	1	1	0,16	0,16			36
tw	Taiwan	23061689	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34	37
br	Brazil	190732694	20	21	0,1	0,11	36	35	38
by	Belarus	9648533	1	1	0,1	0,1	35	36	39
mg	Madagascar	20653556	2	2	0,1	0,1	44	37	40
cu	Cuba	11239363	1	1	0,09	0,09		38	41
kr	South Korea	48758000	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39	42
ec	Ecuador	14790608	1	1	0,07	0,07		40	43
cl	Chile	17224200	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41	44
ro	Romania	21466174	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43	45
co	Colombia	45925397	2	3	0,04	0,07	41	44	46
ru	Russia	142905200	6	7	0,04	0,05	43	42	47
za	South Africa	49991300	2	9	0,04	0,18	38	48	48
my	Malaysia	27565821	1	1	0,04	0,04			49
ve	Venezuela	29105632	1	1	0,03	0,03	40	45	50
pe	Peru	29496000	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46	51
tr	Turkey	73722988	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47	52
mx	Mexico	112322757	2	2	0,02	0,02	49	49	53
th	Thailand	63878267	1	2	0,02	0,03	50	50	54
eg	Egypt	80085862	1	3	0,01	0,04	51	51	55
in	India	1210193422	8	8	0,01	0,01	52	52	56
cn	China	1339724852	7	11	0,01	0,01	53	53	57
ua	Ukraine	45888000	0	0	0	0	48	53	58
			896	1450	61,79%

A few interesting facts:

• There are active DDs in 57 countries
• Martinique pops up at rank 3. As this French overseas "d partement" has its own ISO code, it is counted here separately from France, though Martinique inhabitants are French citizens. That's of course a though case but I consider that David did choose to use "MQ" in his record, which means this is important for him. Let's respect that wish.
• Norway is now ahead of New Zealand. One more DD since last count
• Sweden is ahead of Luxembourg. Two more DDs since last count
• France takes over Australia and Belgium. *seven* more DDs since last count!
• UK is ahead of Netherlands now. Three more DDs since last count.
• Denmark passes Canada and Spain (50% more DDs for DK), while Croatia passes Spain (because Spain lost 3 DDs).
• USA continues to go down (by 3 this time). We're constantly losing developers over there (-3 in one year).
• And we have a new country in this list as Malaysia now has a Debian developer. Along with Martinique (ahem), this makes two new "countries" in this list. No country disappeared.
• For the first time in 12 years, DebConf will be in a country (Bosnia and Herzegovina) that has NO Debian developer. This has to change.
• We have 23 more active Debian developers and 40 more developers overall.

v2 comment: This is the second version of this blog post. I have been pointed that the population I was using for "Ireland" is indeed the population of the entire island, so Republic of Ireland (Eire) plus Northern Ireland (Ulster). We may guess that people listing "IE" as their country are citizens of the Republic of Ireland, so the population to use is that of this part of the island. As a consequence, Ireland is bumped up to 6th rank instead of 9th. v3 comment: Doh. Since I'm doing this survey, I was always adding people using "sv" as country to Sweden. This is a quite common mistake and it was happening in the past. But now, there is only ONE developer who uses "sv" as country, this is Rene Mayorga and he definitely lives in El Salvador, not Sweden. As a consequence, Sweden lost one developer (but keeps its rank) and El Salvador now appears at rank 36. It is not a "new" country as Rene is DD for quite some time.

See comment at the end about this 2nd version This is time again for yet another bubulle game: counting the number of developers per country. I already published such analysis in 2010 and 2009. So, here we are with the June 2011 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.

Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
June 2011: rank now

Code	Name	Population	Act Dev	Dev	Act/Million	Dev/Million	2009	2010	June 2011
fi	Finland	5374781	21	31	3,91	5,77	1	1	1	1
ch	Switzerland	7866500	21	26	2,67	3,31	2	2	2	2
mq	Martinique	397730	1	1	2,51	2,51			3	3
no	Norway	4964500	12	15	2,42	3,02	5	4	4	4
nz	New Zealand	4393500	10	15	2,28	3,41	4	3	5	5
ie	Ireland	4470700	10	13	2,24	2,91	13	9	6	6
se	Sweden	9354462	20	36	2,14	3,85	3	6	7	7
lu	Luxemburg	511840	1	1	1,95	1,95	8	5	8	8
de	Germany	81802000	155	221	1,89	2,7	7	7	9	9
at	Austria	8404252	15	25	1,78	2,97	6	8	10	10
fr	France	63136180	91	119	1,44	1,88	12	12	11	11
au	Australia	22632213	31	57	1,37	2,52	9	10	12	12
be	Belgium	11007020	15	17	1,36	1,54	10	11	13	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62008048	67	106	1,08	1,71	14	14	14	14
nl	Netherlands	16674600	18	37	1,08	2,22	11	13	15	15
dk	Denmark	5564219	6	10	1,08	1,8	17	17	16	16
ca	Canada	34480000	27	57	0,78	1,65	15	15	17	17
hr	Croatia	4429078	3	3	0,68	0,68	20	18	18	18
es	Spain	46030109	31	51	0,67	1,11	16	16	19	19
lt	Lithuania	3225346	2	2	0,62	0,62	28	19	20	20
cz	Czech Rep	10540748	6	6	0,57	0,57	21	20	21	21
it	Italy	60605053	33	47	0,54	0,78	23	22	22	22
bg	Bulgaria	7351254	4	4	0,54	0,54	25	23	23	23
il	Israel	7602400	4	6	0,53	0,79	24	24	24	24
us	USA	308745538	162	364	0,52	1,18	19	21	25	25
hu	Hungary	9979000	5	11	0,5	1,1	18	25	26	26
lv	Latvia	2245357	1	1	0,45	0,45	26	26	27	27
uy	Uruguay	3494382	1	2	0,29	0,57	22	27	28	28
jp	Japan	127960000	33	46	0,26	0,36	30	28	29	29
pl	Poland	38186860	9	13	0,24	0,34	29	29	30	30
cr	Costa Rica	4253897	1	1	0,24	0,24	31	30	31	31
pt	Portugal	10647763	2	4	0,19	0,38	27	32	32	32
sk	Slovakia	5429763	1	1	0,18	0,18	32	31	33	33
gr	Greece	11305118	2	3	0,18	0,27	33	38	34	34
ar	Argentina	40091359	7	9	0,17	0,22	34	33	35	35
tw	Taiwan	23061689	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34	36	36
br	Brazil	190732694	20	21	0,1	0,11	36	35	37	37
by	Belarus	9648533	1	1	0,1	0,1	35	36	38	38
mg	Madagascar	20653556	2	2	0,1	0,1	44	37	39	39
cu	Cuba	11239363	1	1	0,09	0,09		38	40	40
kr	South Korea	48758000	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39	41	41
ec	Ecuador	14790608	1	1	0,07	0,07		40	42	42
cl	Chile	17224200	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41	43	43
ro	Romania	21466174	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43	44	44
co	Colombia	45925397	2	3	0,04	0,07	41	44	45	45
ru	Russia	142905200	6	7	0,04	0,05	43	42	46	46
za	South Africa	49991300	2	9	0,04	0,18	38	48	47	47
my	Malaysia	27565821	1	1	0,04	0,04			48	48
ve	Venezuela	29105632	1	1	0,03	0,03	40	45	49	49
pe	Peru	29496000	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46	50	50
tr	Turkey	73722988	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47	51	51
mx	Mexico	112322757	2	2	0,02	0,02	49	49	52	52
th	Thailand	63878267	1	2	0,02	0,03	50	50	53	53
eg	Egypt	80085862	1	3	0,01	0,04	51	51	54	54
in	India	1210193422	8	8	0,01	0,01	52	52	55	55
cn	China	1339724852	7	11	0,01	0,01	53	53	56	56
ua	Ukraine	45888000	0	0	0	0	48	53	57	57
			896	1450	61,79%

A few interesting facts:

• Martinique pops up at rank 3. As this French overseas "d partement" has its own ISO code, it is counted here separately from France, though Martinique inhabitants are French citizens. That's of course a though case but I consider that David did choose to use "MQ" in his record, which means this is important for him. Let's respect that wish.
• Norway is now ahead of New Zealand. One more DD since last count
• Sweden is ahead of Luxembourg. Two more DDs wince last count
• France takes over Australia and Belgium. *seven* more DDs since last count!
• UK is ahead of Netherlands now. Three more DDs since last count.
• Denmark passes Canada and Spain (50% more DDs for DK), while Croatia passes Spain (because Spain lost 3 DDs).
• USA continues to go down (by 3 this time). We're constantly losing developers over there (-3 in one year).
• And we have a new country in this list as Malaysia now has a Debian developer. Along with Martinique (ahem), this makes two new "countries" in this list. No country disappeared.
• For the first time in 12 years, DebConf will be in a country (Bosnia and Herzegovina) that has NO Debian developer. This has to change.
• We have 23 more active Debian developers and 40 more developers overall.

This is the second version of this blog post. I have been pointed that the population I was using for "Ireland" is indeed the population of the entire island, so Republic of Ireland (Eire) plus Northern Ireland (Ulster). We may guess that people listing "IE" as their country are citizens of the Republic of Ireland, so the population to use is that of this part of the island. As a consequence, Ireland is bumped up to 6th rank instead of 9th.

This is time again for yet another bubulle game: counting the number of developers per country. I already published such analysis in 2010 and 2009. So, here we are with the June 2011 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.

Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
June 2011: rank now

Code	Name	Population	Act Dev	Dev	Act/Million	Dev/Million	2009	2010	June 2011
fi	Finland	5374781	21	31	3,91	5,77	1	1	1
ch	Switzerland	7866500	21	26	2,67	3,31	2	2	2
mq	Martinique	397730	1	1	2,51	2,51			3
no	Norway	4964500	12	15	2,42	3,02	5	4	4
nz	New Zealand	4393500	10	15	2,28	3,41	4	3	5
se	Sweden	9354462	20	36	2,14	3,85	3	6	6
lu	Luxemburg	511840	1	1	1,95	1,95	8	5	7
de	Germany	81802000	155	221	1,89	2,7	7	7	8
at	Austria	8404252	15	25	1,78	2,97	6	8	9
ie	Ireland	6197100	10	13	1,61	2,1	13	9	10
fr	France	63136180	91	119	1,44	1,88	12	12	11
au	Australia	22632213	31	57	1,37	2,52	9	10	12
be	Belgium	11007020	15	17	1,36	1,54	10	11	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62008048	67	106	1,08	1,71	14	14	14
nl	Netherlands	16674600	18	37	1,08	2,22	11	13	15
dk	Denmark	5564219	6	10	1,08	1,8	17	17	16
ca	Canada	34480000	27	57	0,78	1,65	15	15	17
hr	Croatia	4429078	3	3	0,68	0,68	20	18	18
es	Spain	46030109	31	51	0,67	1,11	16	16	19
lt	Lithuania	3225346	2	2	0,62	0,62	28	19	20
cz	Czech Rep	10540748	6	6	0,57	0,57	21	20	21
it	Italy	60605053	33	47	0,54	0,78	23	22	22
bg	Bulgaria	7351254	4	4	0,54	0,54	25	23	23
il	Israel	7602400	4	6	0,53	0,79	24	24	24
us	USA	308745538	162	364	0,52	1,18	19	21	25
hu	Hungary	9979000	5	11	0,5	1,1	18	25	26
lv	Latvia	2245357	1	1	0,45	0,45	26	26	27
uy	Uruguay	3494382	1	2	0,29	0,57	22	27	28
jp	Japan	127960000	33	46	0,26	0,36	30	28	29
pl	Poland	38186860	9	13	0,24	0,34	29	29	30
cr	Costa Rica	4253897	1	1	0,24	0,24	31	30	31
pt	Portugal	10647763	2	4	0,19	0,38	27	32	32
sk	Slovakia	5429763	1	1	0,18	0,18	32	31	33
gr	Greece	11305118	2	3	0,18	0,27	33	38	34
ar	Argentina	40091359	7	9	0,17	0,22	34	33	35
tw	Taiwan	23061689	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34	36
br	Brazil	190732694	20	21	0,1	0,11	36	35	37
by	Belarus	9648533	1	1	0,1	0,1	35	36	38
mg	Madagascar	20653556	2	2	0,1	0,1	44	37	39
cu	Cuba	11239363	1	1	0,09	0,09		38	40
kr	South Korea	48758000	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39	41
ec	Ecuador	14790608	1	1	0,07	0,07		40	42
cl	Chile	17224200	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41	43
ro	Romania	21466174	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43	44
co	Colombia	45925397	2	3	0,04	0,07	41	44	45
ru	Russia	142905200	6	7	0,04	0,05	43	42	46
za	South Africa	49991300	2	9	0,04	0,18	38	48	47
my	Malaysia	27565821	1	1	0,04	0,04			48
ve	Venezuela	29105632	1	1	0,03	0,03	40	45	49
pe	Peru	29496000	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46	50
tr	Turkey	73722988	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47	51
mx	Mexico	112322757	2	2	0,02	0,02	49	49	52
th	Thailand	63878267	1	2	0,02	0,03	50	50	53
eg	Egypt	80085862	1	3	0,01	0,04	51	51	54
in	India	1210193422	8	8	0,01	0,01	52	52	55
cn	China	1339724852	7	11	0,01	0,01	53	53	56
ua	Ukraine	45888000	0	0	0	0	48	53	57
			896	1450	61,79%

A few interesting facts:

• Martinique pops up at rank 3. As this French overseas "d partement" has its own ISO code, it is counted here separately from France, though Martinique inhabitants are French citizens. That's of course a though case but I consider that David did choose to use "MQ" in his record, which means this is important for him. Let's respect that wish.
• Norway is now ahead of New Zealand. One more DD since last count
• Sweden is ahead of Luxembourg. Two more DDs wince last count
• France takes over Australia and Belgium. *seven* more DDs since last count!
• UK is ahead of Netherlands now. Three more DDs since last count.
• Denmark passes Canada and Spain (50% more DDs for DK), while Croatia passes Spain (because Spain lost 3 DDs).
• USA continues to go down (by 3 this time). We're constantly losing developers over there (-3 in one year).
• And we have a new country in this list as Malaysia now has a Debian developer. Along with Martinique (ahem), this makes two new "countries" in this list. No country disappeared.
• For the first time in 12 years, DebConf will be in a country (Bosnia and Herzegovina) that has NO Debian developer. This has to change.
• We have 23 more active Debian developers and 40 more developers overall.

"kinneko" reported the Debian bug #630000 on Friday June 10th, against.....debian-installer (first time this is against a package I participate to). First time, also, that we don't know the exact real name of the person reporting the bug. Bug #620000 was reported as of March 29th. That again makes 2.5 months for 10,000 bugs, roughly the same time than 610000-620000. And now I need to decide about reassigning that bug report as it either pertains to the D-I "netcfg" component...or to busybox (the DHCP client in D-I is provided by busybox).

I'm trying to resume some activity in OSM maintenance. As many people, I mapped most parts ofmy neighbourhood, as one can see when looking at Maurepas, France on the map. I stopped about 20 months ago because it was becoming too addictive..:-) I'll start resuming this work by focusing on things I can easily map: my tracks from running sessions. What's good in them is that I know most of these places by heart and can easily remember the terrain features when working on the map. Also, it means only a few dozens of minutes to work on a GPS track, so that's manageable. Another goal I set to myself is improving the map around our country house in Normandy. As you can see there, there is much more to do...but when I'm over there, I have more free time..:-) So, let's see if I can manage my addictability!