Marco Pistore had been successfully merged gs-ja patch to gs . Fumitoshi UKAI posted the script to count the Debian packages prepared by JP project members. At that time, the number of JP packages in Debian was 206. The rests in Debian JP project were 179 packages. Kenshi Muto followed this issue and reported that jnethack in Slink-JP contained Y2K problem.
Further research is required.
The following web page created by GOTO Masanori would be useful for us in Japan. As results of the JP merge operation, some packages show conflicts between JP and Debian. For instance, blackbox-ja was formerly in JP, but now merged into blackbox in Debian. Hiroshi KISE proposed to place the dummy packages in JP, which enables smooth update from JP packages to Debian. The proposal was submitted to rename JP packages of pLaTeX2e family.