All Debian package installations prompts translated to French
published on Mon Mar 5 18:55:48 2007 in news
The Debian Project is proud to announce the translation of all debconf templates to French. Debconf templates are used during the installation and configuration of Debian packages to display important facts about the package and ask for configuration options.
Combined with the translation of the Debian Installer this achievement guarantees that installation of a full Debian system can be done entirely in French.
Localization has been ongoing ever since the Debian project created new software to ease management of translated Debconf templates. This allowed package maintainers to integrate the work of hundreds of volunteers translating these templates into dozens of languages. The Debian internationalisation community has provided an invaluable service in the past few years.
Several other language teams have almost completed their effort.
Credit for the achievement of the French localization is due to the French translators as well as all Debian package maintainers who have regularly fixed the dozens of bug reports sent by translators over the years.
Since newly translated packages are uploaded to Debian's unstable branch
sid
a last effort will now target the integration of all translations
in the testing
branch, the upcoming Debian stable release etch
.