Didn't we used to have a "translation" component? Our translators need to fix
this (in the next few days, upstream) if it's going to get fixed.

Upstream now shows 100% for gdm2 at
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/gnome-2.0-core/

Not sure what else to do with this bug, as there's no translation component
for the beta.

huh? which version?

Look at de.po file in 2.4.0.4. The coverage looks fairly good.

In any case, there's nothing I can do about it if it's not done; our translators
need to put translations on gnome.org. (Well, they really need to have already
done it, as I asked.) If they didn't or don't pretty darn soon, then we aren't
going to have a fix for this bug. Unless you can give me a better idea. I can't
translate it myself, and I am not going to put custom po files in packages
unless we have patches that diverge strings from upstream, as I made clear at
the start of this development cycle.

in gdm-2.4.0.7-1 everything seems to be ok