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<author>version française par Antoine Hulin <email>antoine.hulin@origan.fdn.org</email>
<author>et les membres de la liste
<email>debian-l10n-french@lists.debian.org</email>
-<version>Version &version;, &date-fr; (version française 20020311).
+<version>Version &version;, &date-fr; (version française 20020315).
<copyright>
<p>
<example>
# Synthèse hebdomadaire des rapports de bogue qui me concernent
-0 17 * * fri echo "index maint <var>address</var>" | mail request@bugs.debian.org
+&cron-bug-report;
</example>
<p>
-Remplacez <var>adresse</var> par votre adresse officielle de responsable
+Remplacez <var>address</var> par votre adresse officielle de responsable
Debian.
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country where use of cryptography even for authentication is forbidden
then please contact us so we can make special arrangements.
<p>
-When you are ready to apply, you need an existing Debian maintainer
+To apply as a new maintainer, you need an existing Debian maintainer
to verify your application (an <em>advocate</em>). After you have
contributed to Debian for a while, and you want to apply to become a
registered developer, an existing developer with whom you
For more details, please consult <url id="&url-newmaint;" name="New
Maintainer's Corner"> at the Debian web site. Make sure that you
are familiar with the necessary steps of the New Maintainer process
-before actually applying. If you are prepared well, you can save
+before actually applying. If you are well prepared, you can save
a lot of timer later on.
<p>
If you notice that a package is lacking maintenance, you should
make sure the maintainer is active and will continue to work on
-their packages. Try contacting them yourself.
+his packages. Try contacting him yourself.
<p>
If you do not get a reply after a few weeks you should collect all
-useful information about this maintainer. Start by logging in to
-the <url id="http://db.debian.org" name="Debian Developer's Database">
+useful information about this maintainer. Start by logging into
+the <url id="&url-debian-db;" name="Debian Developer's Database">
and doing a full search to check whether the maintainer is on vacation
-and when they were last seen. Collect any important package names
-they maintain and any Release Critical bugs filled against them.
+and when he was last seen. Collect any important package names
+he maintains and any Release Critical bugs filled against them.
<p>
Send all this information to &email-debian-qa;, in order to let the
QA people do whatever is needed.
release manager. At the end of the last test cycle, the
<em>testing</em> distribution is renamed to <em>stable</em>,
overriding the old <em>stable</em> distribution, which is removed at
-that time (although they can be found at <tt>archive-host;</tt>).
+that time (although it can be found at <tt>&archive-host;</tt>).
<p>
This development cycle is based on the assumption that the
<em>unstable</em> distribution becomes <em>stable</em> after passing a
# ask for weekly reports of bugs in my packages
&cron-bug-report;
</example>
-Replace <var>maintainer-address</var> with you official Debian
+Replace <var>address</var> with you official Debian
maintainer address.
<sect id="submit-bug">Submitting Bugs