Can t believe its almost 7 years since my first sponsored upload of Dibbler to Debian archive. I did it cause upstream promised to maintain it and fix any bugs submitted by Debian users. Unfortunately after 3-4 years he stopped to do it. Well since I was the sponsor of it, then I should feel responsible for these packages after him. It s quite hard to do it, cause I m not using these packages at all Anyway, I finally found some time and reviewed them. It wasn t easy cause in the meantime whole build process totally changed. To whom it may concern: Dibbler is an IPv6 DHCP client, relay and server. I ve just uploaded the newest upstream version. Changelog follows: dibbler (0.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * ACK previous NMUes thanks!
* New upstream version (Closes: #629685)
uses correct example adsress pool in examples (Closes: #544323)
corrects scope of stateless in manpage (Closes: #615165)
* Fix pending l10n issues. Debconf translations:
Danish courtesy of Joe Hansen (Closes: #597767)
Dutch courtesy of Jeroen Schot (Closes: #632628)
* Fixes handling of children processes using resolvconf (Closes: #627317)
* Doesn t conflict with other resolver configuration daemons (Closes: #627786)
* Correctly handles multiselect values from debconf (Closes: #629681)
* Debianized almost from scratch, uses new source format.
* New Standards-Version (no changes needed). Bartosz Fenski <fenio> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:37:13 +0100 Yep, it fixes 8 bugs, and brings the newest upstream version with huge number of new features to Debian. Enjoy!

The increasing storm of localization NMUs and uploads, related to debconf translations, has an interesting effect: some teams are now incredibly active at pushing translations for their language towards the magic 100%. So, after Danish (effort lead by Joe Hansen) and Dutch (effort lead by Jeroen Schot) which I already mentioned, it seems that the Italian localization team started engines and is now taking off. It will be interesting to watch these teams competing (in a friendly way) to climb in statistics over next months..:-) So, if you're Italian (or speak it well) and want to help, please join the Italian l10n mailing list (debian-l10n-italian on lists.debian.org. If you're Danish or Dutch and want to stay ahread the two others, please joind debian-l10n-danish or debian-l10n-dutch. PS: why did I write "Zou" in this post's title? Because this is a common French interjection for "Whoooosh" and because this is part of the nickname of the tireless and incredibly active, in many places, Francesca Ciceri, aka MadameZou, who's is doing so much for Italian localization (and many other areas in Debian such as the publicity and web team). And that really deserves some lights, trumpets, etc.

This article could become one of my recurring "let's make noise about translators work" articles. You've been warned. In Squeeze, a few languages reached full completion of debconf strings, those "questions" that are asked during packages installation or upgrades. This can be followed here (for unstable: we don't have an online status page for testing).. Many of you, particularly those who aren't bored at reading me, know that I like pushing this friendly "competition" as a good way to encourage progress in localization of that part of Debian. As of now, we have really good and active teams that are able to maintain a great completion in this. Several of them are likely to reach full 100% completion for wheezy. Let's look at the current status:

• Seven languages are currently the best candidates for full completion: Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, German and French. They will definitely reach 100% in unstable and I'm tracking the status in testing, which is currently excellent.
• The status for Japanese is a bit unclear to me. Though the completion is quite high, I don't witness a constant effort to bring what's incomplete to the complete status. So, I unfortunately doubt it can make it to 100% (Japanese translators, you know what to do to prove me wrong...)
• Vietnamese which is next in the ranking has a specific situation. Its main (by far) contributor, Clytie Siddall (who is a very well known figure in the l10n community for free software as she contributed to Vietnamese l10n of many end-user software), cannot currently do the highly dedicated work she was doing, because real life sucks. There have been tentatives by the local community in Vietname to take this effort over, but they're probably more focused on end-user software than Debian work.
• Dutch and Danish are the best suspects for joining the 100%-fighters club. Both now have at least one very very motivated contributor who's "jumping" on each and any pending l10n work. So, yes, Jeroen Schot and Joe "Dalton" Hansen, you can make it!
• Effort for Italian is not as constant as it could be. It is maybe missing a noisy and hardworking "leader". Still, I know that the team is very active in other areas of localization such as the DDTP (where Italian is leading) so, maybe one person could diverge his her attention for debconf work..:-)
• A few next languages see a more hectic activity: Galician, Finnish and Basque used to have one very active contributor, but recent activity is much much lower.
• Brazilian Portuguese sees some effort but the situation is similar to Italian, here. The pt_BR team is more focused on the DDTP (and does well in this). It might only need a motivated volunteer, but 100% is quite far and the effort would be focused on wheezy+1
• Slovak is indeed one of the good candidates for "could be 100% some day". Progress is currently quite regular but Slavko is starting from very far away and it will take time. Keep going on!
• Other in the ranking are really mostly stalled, so if you language is among them....then, you known what to do!

I hope this maybe gave you the idea of joining these efforts. Please pop up on one of the i18n mailing lists if you're interested, and if you don't know where to start, then debian-i18n< is what you're looking for. See you soon!