Dear Debian maintainer, The hyperspec 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 466654 (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 have 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 hyperspec 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...:-) 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 13, 2008 : send this notice Sunday, April 27, 2008 : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you (maintainer) CC'ed Wednesday, May 07, 2008 : deadline for receiving translation updates Thursday, May 08, 2008 : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/2-day send the NMU patch to the BTS Saturday, May 10, 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 hyperspec 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. --