In his latest bits from the DPL, Stefano wrote:

I'd like to respond (also) here to inquiries I'm receiving these days: I will not run again as DPL. So you have about 20 days to mob\^Wconvince other DDs to run, or decide to run yourself. Do not to wait for the vary last minute, as that makes for lousy campaigns.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present you... THE DPL GAME GOALS:
The goal of the game is to let people know you think they'd be nice DPLs.
The point is not to pressure them, but to let them know they're awesome and make them at least consider the idea to run for DPL. The winners are those who have at least one of their Fantastic Four running for DPL. Bonus points if one of them ends being the next DPL. RULES:
Name three persons (plus a reserve, just in case) you'd like to see as candidates for DPL. Publicly list them (on your blog or on identi.ca using the hashtag #DPLgame) or at least let them know that you'd like to have them as candidate for DPL (via private mail).
You may want to add a couple of lines explaining the rationale for your choices. AGE:
0-99 NUMBER OF PLAYERS:
The more the merrier Some suggestions on how to play:
First think of the qualities a DPL needs to do, in your opinion, a good job. Then look around you: the people you work with, the people you see interact on mailing list, etc. There must be someone with those qualities.

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Here are my Fantastic Four (in rigorous alphabetic order):

• Russ Allbery
• Gregor Herrmann
• Christian Perrier
• Martin Zobel-Helas

In my opinion, they all more or less have: enthusiasm, a general understanding of dynamics inside the project and of various technical sides of the project itself, ability to delegate and coordinate with different people (inside and outside the project), good communication skills and some diplomacy and ability in de-escalating conflicts. These are people I worked with or I observed working and discussing on mailing lists, and I think they'd do a good job. But -hey!- we are almost a thousand of developers and you cannot possibly know everyone or observe all the people who work in the various teams. This is why you should pick your four names!

Yesterday, I launched the contest for prediction of the day Debian bugs #800000 and #1000000 will be reported. For bug #1000000, this is the second set of bets after those we placed back in 2008 when bug #500000 was reported. I then proposed that we have different bets, refined each time. That gives an interesting light on how people estimate the bug report rate (and, to some extent, the project's life). Have you bet already? You don't need to be a DD or a DM in order to bet. Just someone wanting to have some fun with Debian contributors. Easy and costless.

Here it is. Debian had seven hundred thousand bugs reported in its history. Yet another French winner, indeed two, this time:

• Cedric Boutillier is the winner in the "race of bug #700000" by reporting "override: libzoom-ruby:oldlibs/extra libzoom-ruby1.8:oldlibs/extra" against ftp.debian.org, as part of a quite massive bunch of wishlist bug reports to deal cleanly with old transitional Ruby packages. I somehow suspect C dric retained his bug reports to catch the right moment..:-)
• I won the bet about the day this bug report would happen by missing it only by 7 days: I did bet for February 14th 2013, two years after the release of squeeze and I was secretely expecting we would also release wheezy around that time.

The French gang already got #200000 (by Michel Grentzinger) and #400000 (by /me), and #600000 by Cyril "KiBi" Brulebois. We're good at stupid games, as it seems. Of course, I will soon open the wiki page for the bug #800000 bet, which will again include a place where you can also bet for bug #1000000. Be patient, the week-end is coming..:-)

Here it is. Debian had seven hundred thousand bugs reported in its history. Yet another French winner, indeed two, this time:

• Cedric Boutillier is the winner in the "race of bug #700000" by reporting "override: libzoom-ruby:oldlibs/extra libzoom-ruby1.8:oldlibs/extra" against ftp.debian.org, as part of a quite massive bunch of wishlist bug reports to deal cleanly with old transitional Ruby packages. I somehow suspect C dric retained his bug reports to catch the right moment..:-)
• I won the bet about the day this bug report would happen by missing it only by 7 days: I did bet for February 14th 2013, two years after the release of wheezy and I was secretely expecting we would also release wheezy around that time.

The French gang already got #200000 (by Michel Grentzinger) and #400000 (by /me), and #600000 by Cyril "KiBi" Brulebois. We're good at stupid games, as it seems. Of course, I will soon open the wiki page for the bug #800000 bet, which will again include a place where you can also bet for bug #1000000. Be patient, the week-end is coming..:-)

Yet another yearly summary of my running activities. It seems, indeed, that running has now slightly taken precedence over free software activities in my life and priorities for my free time. To my fellow free software friends: don't worry, I'm not on my way to stop investing my time in Debian. It's quite clear that I'm reducing my involvement, mostly because days only have 24 hours...not because I'm bored or tired by free software development. But, certainly, it became an important thing that running currently has a small priority over Debian nowadays, for me. So, what happened on that front in 2012 for running bubulle? I finally managed to run 2900 km during the year, which is over 400km more than 2011. This is mostly due to the increasing part of running in my daily commute : a typical work week can now be something like this:

• Monday morning, leave home with a big bag and clothes for up to 4 work days (including those I'm wearing) plus running clothes (and shoes).
• Monday evening: come back by running. Either 4km, then 30 minutes train ride, then 3km more....or "the long version": 10km, then 20 minutes train ride, then 3km more.
• Tuesday: go to work by run+train+run, shower, change clothes, work, come back by run+train+run
• Wednesday: ditto
• Thursday: let's have a break. I usually work in another facility where it's less convenient to go by running
• Friday morning: go to work by run+train+run
• Friday evening: come back home with a big bag of dirty clothes

With such an organization, I can end up with weeks where I run up to 50-60 kilometers in 5 days, with peaks that may include 26km in one *work* day. I also end up having room in trains between the runs, I wonder why..:-) And, of course, during week-ends, I spend some parts of my time running too..:-). Indeed, just like for many drugs, I feel sad during days where I haven't run at all and it's usually hard for me to spend more than 2 days without. Indeed, the longest time period without running, this year, has been 9 days, just after the Caen marathon, in June. Mostly because, at that time, I reached a moment where training (and believe me, very boring and hard training) consumed all my motivation. But these moments are indeed very rare and training is mostly *never* boring for me. Mostly because I like running in the nature, in forests, woods, fields, country. Never wearing an MP3 player or any kind of such device toplay music, but just enjoying the outside, whether it's raining, winding, sunny hot. Running (particularly my daily commute) is also the moment where I *think* about my work, my technical activities, my own life, whatever. I think I even sometimes translated some software, mentally, while running..:) Indeed, there have been 205 days in this year where I ran at least once. Last year was 181 so....drug addiction is increasing. So, 2900 kilometers. That's about the distance from my place to Moscow in Russia. 282 hours (11 days18 hours.....9d21h last year). Average speed: 10,3km/h (10,5km/h last year). Cumulated height difference: 33,400 meters (27700m last year). More distance, more time, a bit slower: this is an obvious consequence of more trail running (which includes more difficulties, such as running on volcanoes!). Most active month: November with 331km. Less active month: June with 141km. This year was also a year of records:

• personal best broken in September by....14 seconds....on half-marathon with 1h37'28" after failing a first time by 20 seconds in March
• personal best broken twice in the two marathons I ran. first in June, in Caen, after a very hard 8-week training and in difficult conditions (rain, wind, hard race profile) with 3h38'45". Then, I managed to run a stunning 3h33'35" in October in Val du Rueil (a small town in the Seine river valley). That one will be hard to break now.
• longest distance run, with the "80km" Paris Ecotrail run in March, in 11 hours
• great progress in my other "ultra" race (70km in November) which I ran in 8h22 instead of 9h15 last year

I ran 10 official races during the year : two "ultra" races (70km Le Puy-Firminy in November, by night and 80km Paris Ecotrail in March), two marathons (Caen and Val de Rueil), four half-marathons and two "short" (less than 30km) trail races. How about next^W this year? Well, my goals are currently being secured:

• more trail races than roads races
• Paris 80km Ecotrail again in March. Goal: beat last year's 11 hours
• Le Puy-Firminy 70km again in November. A very nice "small" race (small by number of participants....but the effort is not small!).
• Mont-Blanc "marathon" in late June. Indeed a 42km trail race in Chamonix, starting at 1000m, finishing at 1600m, with a peak at 2300m and 2500m positive vertical gain (1490m negative).
• Another "long" trail race (40-60km) somewhere in April/May
• A "classic" marathon in October/November. Probably somewhere in France. Maybe La Rochelle. That might be the only classic marathon I run this year...unless I decide for another challenge like running two marathons in two consecutive Sundays..:-)
• Do once again my own personal marathon which is just "come back from work by foot".....which nearly equals the distance of a marathon. Something I achieved for the first time in September, in about 5 hours
• Maybe try a 6 or 12 hour race (running for 6 or 12 hours...or more...on a small 1-2km loop). These ones are very friendly ones and the only races where lame runners like me can run along with the best ones, not only for the first 100 meters.

All this of course is assuming that no injury comes up (my ankles are sometimes yelling outbut I'm fortunate enough to not have articulation problems that many runners have, particularly in knees). We'll see on January 1st 2014...:-)

Samba 4 is out. That's just it. 21 years (same age than the Linux kernel, 2 years older than Debian) after a crazy australian student started it, Samba 4 is out. Doh.

I happen to be a great fan of ocean races, so like many, particularly here in France, I'm following the Vend e Globe ocean race, alone around the world on 60-feet IMOCA race ships, without stop or assistance. In its early editions, Vend e Globe was easy to explain : start from Les Sables d'Olonne and come back there after going around Antarctica by leaving it to starboard. Period. Now, it's a bit more complicated as, for security reasons, the sailors have to pass a few points meant to prevent them from going too south (during first editions, some sailors went as south as 65 S). Sailors are currently heading "down" the Atlantic and will probably pass in the vicinity of the Tristan da Cunha island. This island has always been fascinating to me. It is the remotest point inf the world with a permanent population. The closest inhabited land is over 2800km away. 271 people live there. No airport. No regular ship line. Only fishing boats from time to time and that's all. It's probably hard to imagine what is the life there....but I find this fascinating, in some way. Maybe one of these parts of the world where I would like to go and never will. And there's even a volcano (indeed, the island *is* a volcano) : I wonder if there is a Linux user over there...

That was not my target in today's marathon (my second one in the year). The target was breaking my 3h38'45" record, set on June 10th in Caen. And, well, I did it. By more than 5 minutes \o/. Of course, the Seine-Eure marathon is the perfect place for this:

• really flat race with no up climbs above 5 meters and an overall up climbing of about 30 meters
• high level marathon. Even though it only has 600 runners, it is the fastest in France, when considering the "median" time (the time of the runner arrivng exactly half of all runners) of about 3h35.
• it is located in Normandy so the likeliness of heat in October is just science-fiction..:-)

My target was running 5'06"/km, so 3h35'11" (but the target was running this as long as possible and see what happens after km 35). I did this nearly perfectly in the first half, reaching the half-marathon in 1h47'30". Double this and you get 3h35'..:-) "However", I slightly accelerated in the second half, first without noticing, then because....I just could do it..:-). So I managed to run the second half at an average 5'/km, with even the last 2 kilometers around 4'50" and an amazing sprint at the end. Usain bubulle. The outcome is 3h33'35". Doh. Never thought I could do this. It seems that my unusual preparation (remember the "let's run a marathon when coming back from work, at night", in September? or the 5 half-marathons in a row....culminating in a 3/4 marathon in the 6th week-end?)...was not so bad. I'm now very close to qualifying times for Boston, my dream marathon (much more than NYC) as they are 3h30' for my age category. Well, another option is to wait turning 55, where the qualifying time is then 3h40..:-)...but it woudl be quite good to complete one under 3h30. Now, it doesn't look like a dream. We'll see at the end of next year as I will only run one marathon, in autumn, more focusing Spring on ultra running (and, technically, a marathon, but that will be the Mont-Blanc marathon, just before Debconf13....and these 42.195km are quite different from those in Normandy!

It's quite some time since I didn't report about Debian Installer localization. Indeed, thanks to the tireless activity of Cyril Brulebois, we focused on releasing D-I and I indeed stopped harassing translators for updates around July 2012. Why July? Well, you probably know we have "something" to release as soon as we can and most, if not all, Debian energies should be focused on this! Or, more precisely speaking, I only focused on getting the newly introduced material translated: we had several changes recently in D-I, mostly focused on important features, such as IPv6 support (thanks to Phil Kern who worked on this), better wireless networking support (thanks to Sorina Sandu) and EFI boot support (thanks to Steve McIntyre). And, of course, when people change code in D-I, they want to add questions to users, display error and informative messages, etc, etc. And these need translations..:-) Most translators coped with all this (sometimes with /me hitting them hard on the head to get updates) and D-I beta2 was released with 37 complete translations out of 73 supported languages. Yesterday, I just resumed the activity of trying to get more updates not only for those recent changes, but also for other older changes...or for languages that never got completed in the past. As a result, we bumped from 37 compelte languages up to 45 this morning: look for level 1 here (level 2 has been hit by a change in iso-codes, but that change doesn't really affect D-I). If you language is not 100% in the leftmost column on the stats page, you can probably help. Just get in touch with me and we'll check if somebody is already working on this or not.

(doh, I nearly had it. I just got #690019, #690020 and #690022 for l10n stuff) Bartek Krawczyk reported Debian bug #690000 on Monday October 8th, against guake. And my friend Sylvestre Ledru, the package maintainer, now has to fix it instead of trying to promote the use of Scilab over proprietary alternatives in the French aerospace research organizations..:-) Bug #680000 was reported as of July 2nd: 3 months and 8 days for 10,000 bugs. This is a VERY significant drop in the bug reporting rate in Debian. Last time, I wrote: "How will the wheezy freeze affect this? We'll see in two months!". We have the answer: the wheezy freeze triggerred an important drop in bug reporting rate in Debian. My general feeling is somehow different: for whatever reason, I feel like the *overall* activity in the project has dropped significantly. I seem to have less mails to read, less bugs reported against my packages, even less heated discussions here and there, as well as several very quiet channels on IRC. Am I pessimistic when feeling that the overall momentum is sliding out of Debian? Maybe I am, so, folks, please make me optimistic and move you fingers out of the place where they are and help releasing that damn penguin. Apart from that, our next milestone (apart from the wheezy release!) will be bug #700000. Remember the bet?. It looks like the probability of Kartik Mistry winning it is now away (he bet for Now 8th 2012) and the best position is hel by David Pr vot (he bet for December 12th). On the other hand, my own chances are increasing if the bug rate drop is confirmed and if bug #700000 is reported in more than 3 months (I bet for February 14th 2013, guess why?). We'll see that in a few weeks!

It's been some time since I didn't write in this blog about my running activities. So let's make an update for my international friends. If you don't care about running, you can move to the next post in your feed reader..:-) After a quite busy running activity during DebConf 12 in Nicaragua, as well as during the touristic trip we did afterwards, I went back to my "regular" schedule. Main objectives in September-December are roughly the following:

• Seine-Eure marathon, the flattest marathon in France, on October 21st. This marathon is the one where I set the record which I just broke in June, in Caen. So, the goal is easy to find : break it again. My target time is around 3h37. Not so ambitious in apparence, with a current record at 3h38'45". However, I can't afford the highly meticulous preparation I did in April-May-June, so I try to stay with an achievable target.
• The Le Raid Le Puy-Firminy 70km night run on November 24th. Here, I'll just try to go faster than 9h15 which I achieved last year, trying to have a better race management and avoid cramps. Of course, meteorological conditions will be the key, here, as it can be as low as -15 C in that part of France, in November..:-)

During August, I broke my monthly distance record by running nearly 300km in one month, even achieving 100km in only 5 days, around 24th. That was one of my goals: improve my overall resistance to run repetitions, which is one of the keys for ultra-running. These were achieved with many runs to/back work, with up to 13km in the morning and the same in the evening. Yes, running 26km at about 11km/h (and with some ups and downs in the woods to make it even worse) on a day where one has a normal work activity is quite a challenge. September has been more focused on marathon preparation. This time, no complicated plan with interval running as the month was also a very busy work month, where fitting training sessions during the day would be hard. So, I made an easy plan : run a half-marathon every Sunday and run part of my work-home commute every day (So, 3km run to the train station, 30mn train ride, then 4km run to my work place, then shower....and the same back after work). Out of the 5 half-marathons I ran during these 5 Sundays, two of them were official ones. On the first one, I finally managed to break my personal best on half, with 1h37'14". Only a 14 seconds improvement, but that one is certainly one of my best among personal bests....even better than 3h38'45" on marathon.. All other half-marathons were run at marathon speed, so targeting 5'06"/km, which will be my planned pace on October 21st. The one I ran on Sept. 16th, which was the other official race I ran was finally done quite significantly faster than this. First of all, because I had hard times to run "only" at 5'06"/km because of other runners emulation. And also, because I ran the last 3 kilometers up to nearly 14km/h (so, down to 4'15"/km), just for fun, because I could do it..:-) With all this preparation, I think that I now manage to very well manage my marathon speed. I'll probably do a final test tomorrow by trying to keep running at this speed for 3 rounds of my favourite "Maurepas Marathon" circuit, which is just exactly 1/4 of a marathon. More "funnily", I also did something I never did before during this really crazy month : simply said, I came back from work by running. All the way long. Through woods, forests, along some lakes and finally in the country. 42 kilometers (yes, a marathon). After a work day. Starting at 5:45pm and arriving home after 4h50 minutes. With 2 hours of heavy rain. With 2.5 hours running in the dark (with my headlamp of course). All alone. That was a crazy bet to do....but really great fun achieving this : the GPS trace is here. Really something I have to do again..:-) So, well, now I'm more or less prepared and having fun is just a matter for time..:-). I'll keep you guys posted with those and, guess what? I'm already picking my target races for next year..:-)

I recently blogged about 3 languages reaching 100% translation for debconf templates in wheezy. Today, two more languages joined the club: French and Portuguese. We're still on our way to get seven or even eight complete translations in wheezy. Czech is now only missing "linux-latest" and Spanish waits for sysvinit (which I just NMU'ed) and nova (unfortunately an error in former translation was unnoticed and I discovered it quite late). David Pr vot is still trying to get Danish complete, by doing many fast update rounds and NMUs. I hope he succeeds in this.

After several months of effort by the i18n team (and quite a bit from /me), some NMUs, a lot of help by the release team to accept many unblocks, we finally reached 100% translation for debconf screens, in wheezy, for three languages. And, no, French is not among them (yet). The first to reach this heaven are Russian, German and Swedish with translations for all translatable debconf screens for packages in Debian testing (which will become the next Debian release). Three more languages (French, Czech and Portuguese) are waiting for one package to reach testing and another (Spanish) is waiting for three packages. We should then soon reach 7 complete languages. David Pr vot is even trying to get Danish as complete as possible, but it requires pushing for about 15 packages, with many NMUs and unblocks to ask. I started this work in early April, so it took about SIX months to reach this and be ableto happily make a lot of noise about such achievement. You have no idea how it is appreciated by translators....so you maybe have a better idea why I can be so noisy when some uncoordinated upload (for instance with modified localized material) breaks this... We'll have much more news about achievements in l10n for wheezy in the upcoming weeks. We had a lot of things that deserve some trumpets, bells or whistles..:-)

With Debian s 19th anniversary approaching, I thought it would be nice to look back at dpkg s history. After all, it s one of the key components of any Debian system. The figures in this article are all based on dpkg s git repository (as of today, commit 9a06920). While the git repository doesn t have all the history, we tried to integrate as much as possible when we created it in 2007. We have data going back to April 1996 In this period between April 1996 and August 2012:

• 146 persons contributed to dpkg (result of git log --pretty='%aN' sort -u wc -l)
• 6948 commits have been made (result of git log --oneline wc -l)
• 3133612 lines have been written/modified (result of git log --stat perl -ne 'END print $c $c += $1 if /(\d+) insertions/;')

Currently the dpkg source tree contains 28303 lines of C, 14956 lines of Perl and 6984 lines of shell (figures generated by David A. Wheeler s SLOCCount ) and is translated in 40 languages (but very few languages managed to translate everything, with all the manual pages there are 3997 strings to translate). The top 5 contributors of all times (in number of commits) is the following (result of git log --pretty='%aN' sort uniq -c sort -k1 -n -r head -n 5):

1. Guillem Jover with 2663 commits
2. Rapha l Hertzog with 993 commits
3. Wichert Akkerman with 682 commits
4. Christian Perrier with 368 commits
5. Adam Heath with 342 commits

I would like to point out that those statistics are not entirely representative as people like Ian Jackson (the original author of dpkg s C reimplementation) or Scott James Remnant were important contributors in parts of the history that were recreated by importing tarballs. Each tarball counts for a single commit but usually bundles much more than one change. Also each contributor has its own habits in terms of crafting a work in multiple commits. Last but not least, I have generated this 3 minutes gource visualization of dpkg git s history (I used Planet s head pictures for dpkg maintainers where I could find it). <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1x9-Etj1Ew4?fs=1&amp;feature=oembed" width="500"></iframe> Watching this video made me realize that I have been contributing to dpkg for 5 years already. I m looking forward to the next 5 years And what about you? You could be the 147th contributor see this wiki page to learn more about the team and to start contributing.

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Justin B. Rye, the by far most efficient and clever reviewer of the "Debian English Localization Team" (working in the debian-l10n-english mailing list) just created a great page : Why The Name. This page tries to give a clue about some cryptic packages and software names and is a great moment to read, both because you'll definitely learn something...and also benefit from tJustin's so british humor. Justin, when do you apply as non-uploading DD?

So, it's now over. After two weeks of DebCamp+DebConf, followed by two weeks touring over to the best places in Nicaragua with my beloved Elisabeth (our first long holidays as a couple without children since....1987!), my best holidays EVER are over. I visited a wonderful country. I met wonderful people. And I have to come back as I left un unachieved volcano climb (some could think I did that on purpose just to have an excuse for coming back)...:-) I'll probably try to blog about all this in a soon-to-come very long bubullish post (IOW: full of typos and Frenglish) for those of you who aren't tired of these. Now, doh, I have two gardens to clean out before resuming work in less than two weeks.

What is good in "my" job in Debian are opportunities to discover new interesting packages. While surveying the completion of debconf translations in unstable, I thus noticed a new package named "hoteldruid", that has a few questions and interaction with users. After my usual mumble because French and a few other languages were *finally* virtually 100% in unstable for a few days...... I went on my usual task in such cases: propose a review of debconf templates and package description to my fellow debian-l10n-english co-workers (/me bends to Justin B. Rye, our tireless, picky, efficient and very clever Master Reviewer for over 5 years now). Then I discovered what HotelDruid is about: this is a piece of PHP-based software meant to manage....an hotel or bed and breakfast...or any kind of such facility. Real end-user software. Really useful software. For real people...:-) Not the gazillionth obscure development language, or yet another encryption library, or yet another mysterious virtualization thing used by 10 people in the world (even if they host thousands of machines). These are the free software pieces I like the most. Probably Marco Maria Francesco De Santis (the upstream author and Debian package maintainer) somewhere in, I guess, Italy is running a small B&B (or maybe his parents, or his wife/cousin/whatever) *and* is a free software addict. And he wanted to run his business with free software. Same for this French genealogist who once wanted to display his data over the web (and make a real use of that obscure Ocaml language.....yes, pun itended to my friends, here). Of the person who wrote LedgerSMB to manage his business. Or those who use free software to manage hospitals (hi Andreas) or schools (hi DebianEdu folks...and special hi to Petter). Real software for real people. Of course, developed with obscure geeky things used only by those weird geeks who like to sometimes travel half a planet to just gather together and develop the best free operating system ever. Guess what? I like this! And guess what? I proposed the HotelDruid author to check whether we could imrove....translation, of course..:-)

Not much progress ATM (most translations are complete and D-I has been frozen to prepare its release anyway).

• Arabic completes level 3
• Progress for Uyghur in level 2

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 55 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gl gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 language 98%: ga
• 2 languages 97%: hu lt
• 4 languages 95%: dz hr is mk
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 39 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs cy da de eo es eu fa fr gl gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nb nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv th tr uk zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 99%: fi hr vi
• 4 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro ug
• 1 languages 97%: ta
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 42 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bs ca cs cy da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 4 languages 98%: hu pt_BR ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 32 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Norwegian Bokm l, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Not sure if that will work as I expect, but here as my runs in the city of Managua, combined in one single map, thanks to OpenRunner: <script src="http://www.openrunner.com/orservice/inorser-script.php?key=mykey&amp;ser=S03&amp;id=1802807&amp;w=500&amp;h=350&amp;hp=128&amp;k=5&amp;m=0&amp;pa=0&amp;c=0&amp;ts=1342329989" type="text/javascript"></script>

Here's what I found out during the "Packaging with git" talk at Debconf12. There are certainly cool enhancements. Feel free to share on Planet.

bubulle@sesostris:~ $ cat .bashrc
# http://lukasrieder.com/2009/07/14/extend-your-bash-ps1.html
parse_git_branch()  
  git branch 2> /dev/null   sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
 
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color xterm screen)
    PS1='$ debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot) \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\[\033[01;33m\]$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] \$ '
    ;;
*)
    PS1='$ debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot) \u@\h:\w$(parse_git_branch)\$ '
    ;;
esac