Re: [RFR] templates://openoffice.org/{templates}

2009-10-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Rene Engelhard wrote: Tamil and Telugu aren't Indic languages, they're Dravidian languages. Unfortunately we can't just substitute Indian either - Bangla is Indic but not Indian. Of course this is really just another case of confusion between writing systems and languages. This is a

Re: [RFR2] templates://apt-cacher-ng/{apt-cacher-ng.templates}

2009-10-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: JBR: [...] _Description: Automatic request URL remapping for apt-cacher-ng: Is the package name neccessary? (I'd like to hope the user knows what s/he is installing.) For brevity I suggest: _Description: Automatic remapping of client requests: In cases

Re: [RFR] templates://sinfo/{sinfo.templates}

2009-10-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Esko Arajärvi (e...@iki.fi): +_Description: Enable the sinfo CGI interface? + The sinfo package includes a CGI script web interface for sinfo. It is + disabled by default as it might publish information the computer not + intended to be public. [...] It is

Re: [RFR] templates://redhat-cluster/{cman.templates}

2009-10-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. This time I have nothing to say about the templates and a huge backlog of control file changes - slightly delayed by the aftermath of a ten-hour power outage, so it's a good thing I already had them handy from last

Re: [RFR] templates://kde4libs/{kdelibs5.templates}

2009-10-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Sune Vuorela wrote: Full NACK. You are changing the message. We are not moving from .kde to .kde4. Oops, I missed that. Revised patch with from ~/.kde4 to ~/.kde attached. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this

Re: Request for review: xz-utils package description

2009-10-18 Thread Justin B Rye
I'm coming in late here, but my additional advice would be: * It's hard enough keeping package names, executables, compression formats, and file extensions straight; don't force end users to think in terms of upstream project brandnames like 7-Zip and LZMA Utils where it's avoidable. *

Re: Request for review: xz-utils package description

2009-10-18 Thread Justin B Rye
Some afterthoughts: Justin B Rye wrote: XZ-format compression library Maybe XZ (and LZMA) format compression library The Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm gives memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression. I was wondering

Re: [LCFC] templates://syscp/{templates}

2009-10-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for syscp. Template: syscp/admin-password [...] The user name and password will be stored in /etc/syscp/debian.php. I'd say username, though it matters a bit less than usual. Package: syscp

Re: Request for review: python-cloudfiles description

2009-10-22 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Shuler wrote: - I would like to convey to the user what the system actually is, but I do not wish the descriptions to sound like buzzword-bingo advertisements in any way. - I think it would be nice to have a description that will be relatively portable for the various language API

Re: Request for review: python-cloudfiles description

2009-10-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Shuler wrote: (Underlining excess buzzwords) Description: Rackspace Cloud Files service $LANGNAME interface Cloud Files is a parallel, virtualized, distributed storage system run ^ as a commercial web-based backup and archiving service.

Re: Request for review: python-cloudfiles description

2009-10-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Shuler wrote: How does this sound? Description: Rackspace Cloud Files service Python interface Cloud Files provides unlimited online storage and CDN file delivery. It is accessed via a web services API, which requires a paid account with Rackspace. . This package provides a

Re: spring packages

2009-10-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Marco Amadori wrote: I'm packaging the spring RTS game and since I have poor english skills I would like to have package descriptions and manpages to be reviewed by someone competent. Package sources can be browsed at: Meanwhile I have poor git skills; I hope retrieving copies via the

Re: review of new Debian Financial Partners page

2009-10-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Andre Felipe Machado wrote: I just commited the new page [0]. It should be available at next site build. Please, could the english team review it for correctness? [0] http://www.debian.org/partners/financial_partners.en.html Are we waiting for the build so we can access it at that URL or is

Re: review of new Debian Financial Partners page

2009-10-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Andre Felipe Machado wrote: The debian site is rebuilt at defined hours during the 24 h period. So modifications are not displayed real time... The cvs repository contains the up to the minute version. I wouldn't know where to get at that. A

Re: Request for improve a package description

2009-11-09 Thread Justin B Rye
fabien boucher wrote: Package: libxr Description: cross-platform XML-RPC client/server library Well, for a start the three different packages should have three different synopses. As a non-programmer I have to admit I'm a bit out of my depth dealing with this interface description language

Re: Request for improve a package description

2009-11-11 Thread Justin B Rye
fabien boucher wrote: Yes it was not clear about the language so we can turn the description like this : Package: libxr Description: SSL-capable XML-RPC implementation - shared libraries This cross-platform XML-RPC library supports persistent HTTP/1.1 connections over SSL. It comes

Re: [RFR] Smuxi po templates

2009-11-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Mirco Bauer wrote: Please find, for review, the po templates part of the smuxi source package. Apologies for the lack of patch file. smuxi-engine.pot: [...] #: ../src/Engine/Session.cs:162 msgid After you have made a connection the list of available commands changes, just use /help

Re: [RFR] Smuxi po templates

2009-11-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Mirco Bauer wrote: What about: msgid After you have made a connection the list of available commands changes. Use the /help command again to see the extended command list. Yes, that's good. #: ../src/Engine/Session.cs:574 msgid Invalid paramater for network, use list, switch or close

Re: [RFR2] Smuxi po templates

2009-11-21 Thread Justin B Rye
as fallback. msgstr Should the last word be fallbacks? This is what Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote, to me it doesn't look correct either as there are 2 named nicks to be used as fallback. Justin any comment on this? I was thinking of the whole thing as fallback behaviour, but now you mention

Re: [RFR2] Smuxi po templates

2009-11-21 Thread Justin B Rye
Mirco Bauer wrote: I suppose there's the alternative of phrasing it as something like: OpenSSH version not found (exit code: {0})\n ...but I'm not sure it helps. It doesn't look for a specific version. It want's to check what the currently installed OpenSSH version is. If it was looking

Re: Request review of gpdftext package description

2009-12-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Esko Arajärvi wrote: On Saturday 26 December 2009, Neil Williams wrote: The current Debian package description is: Description: GTK+ text editor for ebook PDF files gpdftext opens a simple text-based PDF file, typically intended for reading on an ebook reader and loads the text into a

Re: [RFR] Description and templates for package dotLRN

2009-12-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Hector Romojaro wrote: As suggested by Christian Perrier (#562936 [0]), I kindly ask for review of templates and control files from dotLRN package (attached) before uploading a new version. Sure! I don't know how many reviewers we've got at this time of year, but here's my input. Homepage:

Re: [RFR] templates://netams/{netams.templates,netams-web.templates}

2009-12-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Rationale: --- netams.old/debian/netams.templates2009-12-30 14:09:36.967745387 +0100 +++ netams/debian/netams.templates2009-12-30 19:50:35.612743440 +0100 [...] Template: netams/admin-password

Re: [RFR] templates://libphone-utils/{libphone-utils0.templates}

2010-01-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. The templates look good; I've only got comments on the boilerplate section of the package descriptions. This library contains basic functions needed by SHR phone software and FSO opimd daemon. . The

Re: [RFR] Description and templates for package dotLRN

2010-01-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Hector Romojaro wrote: W: dotlrn: using-question-in-extended-description-in-templates dotlrn/pg_grant_access Drat, I remembered that Type: boolean templates are allowed to ask questions but I forgot that only means in the short description. I'm out of practice! The template is: Template:

Re: [RFR] Description for package quassel

2010-01-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Müller wrote: PS: Please CC me. Package: quassel-core Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser, libqt4-sql-sqlite, lsb-base (= 3.2-14), openssl Description: distributed IRC client - core component I'm not keen on this terminology of Quassel being an

Re: Need help with improving package descriptions for Cppcheck

2010-02-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Reijo Tomperi wrote: I'm the maintainer of Cppcheck package and I recently got a bug report about the description and as I'm not a technical writer, nor am I native English speaker, I'm requestiong help to improve the description. I'm a NES, but I'll really need some advice from C/C++

Re: [RFR] Description for package quassel

2010-02-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Müller wrote: Do I gather that in principle you can use a quassel-client* package without also having quassel-core installed on the same host? It might be worth explaining that dependency here. Otherwise, fine. Thats right. The idea is to have a core running on a server with 24h

Re: [RFR] Description for package quassel

2010-02-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Jonathan Nieder wrote: For what it’s worth, I like this. I would leave out the “cross-platform” (what is more relevant is that it is graphical, and most software packaged for Debian is cross-platform these days). The question is, can you use the Debian quassel-front-end with a

Re: [RFR] Description for package quassel

2010-02-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Müller wrote: Maybe with the word channels in there somewhere. And surely there's a label somewhere that describes this design... modular? Master/slave? Or perhaps it's an IRC multiplexer... We should not go too far away from the upstream description by inventing new attributes.

Re: [RFR] templates://iog/{iog.templates}

2010-02-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: iog/migrate [...] It was detected that a previous package release has data installed in the + /var/www/iog/ directory. Current versions of the IOG package now use The first line's a bit

Re: Need help with improving package descriptions for Cppcheck

2010-02-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Reijo Tomperi wrote: Thanks to both of you for your previous answers. I tried to combine the best parts from both of the mails and even tried to add some more information about Cppcheck into the description. I'm starting to worry whether it is starting to be too long, or if I'm writing

Re: Need help with improving package descriptions for Cppcheck

2010-02-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Reijo Tomperi wrote: I think this is starting to be what I'm goind to use, but I will still submit it for final evaluation. If no comments are received I will use this. One last nitpick: * redundant if * redundant if; -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a

Re: help needed to improve the libhkl package control file

2010-02-09 Thread Justin B Rye
PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: Before asking for inclusion into Debian I would like to have your opinion about the attached control file. I prefer to have a proper control file before starting asking for upload. Okay, patch and modified version attached, commentary below. -Homepage:

Re: RE  : help needed to improve the libhkl package control file

2010-02-09 Thread Justin B Rye
PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: + The hkl library is a framework for diffraction computation and + diffractometer control, heavily used at the SOLEIL synchrotron. It + supports various types of diffractometer geometry: Eulerian 4-circle, + Eulerian 6-circle, kappa 4-circle, kappa 6-circle, and

Re: [RFC] libdata-structure-util-perl: description

2010-02-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Franck Joncourt wrote: Description: module to change nature of data within a structure Data::Structure::Util is a toolbox to manipulate the data inside a data structure. It can process an entire tree and perform the operation requested on each appropriate element. . For example: It can

Re: Need help to review the omninotify control file.

2010-02-20 Thread Justin B Rye
PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: Section: science What's sciency about it? I thought the idea of this CORBA middleware stuff was to be flavourless, equally suitable for academic, corporate, and indeed military applications? Most of the packages I find when I search on omniorb or corba

Re: [RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-20 Thread Justin B Rye
I've done the proposed fixes and also update the errata for another review. Please give it a last look before we announce. Errata is at http://people.debian.org/~otavio/d-i/errata.en.html and the announcement text below. Apologies if this mail's a bit of a misshape - once again I've

Re: [RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Tasks changes - Many changes were done regarding packages selection and also: - Accessibility packages were add to GNOME task; - laptop task has been modernized; - SSH Server task has been added; Many changes have been made to package selection, plus

Re: [RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Oops, I missed another one: Is also important to note that we disabled the Graphical Installer for s/Is/It is/ -- JBR Never work between meals (Norfolk proverb) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-l10n-english-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [RFR] templates://webfs/{templates}

2010-02-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. (The mail problems I was having at the weekend turned out to be at the edlug end; they seem to be fixed now.) Template: webfsd/web_ip Type: string -_Description: IP address webfsd should listen on: - If your

Re: [RFR] cifs-utils package description

2010-03-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Package: cifs-utils [...] Description: utilities for CIFS file systems The CIFS protocol for Unix systems provides support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. This makes it sound as if CIFS was designed with

Re: [RFR] templates://virtuoso-opensource/{virtuoso-opensource-6.1.templates,l ibvirtodbc0.templates}

2010-03-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Review of the control file to follow. Christian PERRIER wrote: Rationale: Template: virtuoso-opensource-6.1/dba-password [...] _Description: Password for DBA and DAV users: - There are two default users (DBA and DAV) created with administrative - access to Virtuoso and you should

Re: [RFR] templates://virtuoso-opensource/{virtuoso-opensource-6.1.templates,l ibvirtodbc0.templates}

2010-03-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: PS: I didn't review debian/control Diffage of just the control file. Package: virtuoso-opensource (I have to say, if there's not going to be a virtuoso-closedsource package, couldn't you just have called this one virtuoso? That would make it the obvious one to

Re: [RFR] templates://virtuoso-opensource/{virtuoso-opensource-6.1.templates,l ibvirtodbc0.templates}

2010-03-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): + OpenLink Virtuoso is a high-performance object-relational SQL database. Isn't a database the place where data are stored.and software that manage databases being database management software (DBMS, most of the time

Re: [RFR] templates://virtuoso-opensource/{virtuoso-opensource-6.1.templates,l ibvirtodbc0.templates}

2010-03-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Obey Arthur Liu wrote: So, about the description of Virtuoso: high-performance database. It's a bit restrictive. Upstream calls Virtuoso an Universal Server or Universal Integration Middleware. While kind of buzz wordy, they are not that far off. See this:

Re: [RFR] cifs-utils package description

2010-03-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: After Justin's corrections (and a few corrections from Steve), here's the new control file for cifs-utils. I have a doubt about over the SMB procotol Factual or stylistic? It all looks fine to me. Oh, except maybe: Package: cifs-utils Description: utilities

Re: [RFR] templates://webfs/{templates}

2010-03-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Most of these corrections are fine (thanks for spotting the typos), but: Template: webfsd/web_syslog Type: boolean Default: false -_Description: Log webfsd events (start/stop/...) to syslog? +_Description: Log webfsd events (start, stop, ...) to syslog? The

Re: [RFR] templates://webfs/{templates}

2010-03-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Mats Erik Andersson wrote: I did in fact consider replacing the ellipsis with etc., but got cold feets due to the closing period. After checking, my dictionary states et cetera as the only fully spelled out option. The two-word version is certainly commoner in print, but I've always tended to

Re: [RFR] Templates for package smbind

2010-03-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: As suggested by Christian Perrier, I kindly ask for a review of templates for smbind package. Not much work for me here. Template: smbind/password1 Type: password _Description: admin password: Please choose the admin password. I would suggest making this slightly

Re: [RFR] templates://dokuwiki/{templates} (17 templates)

2010-03-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Tanguy Ortolo wrote: I would like to ask for review the following debconf templates for the dokuwiki package. Okay; commentary below, patch and modified version attached, but I suspect I'll need to revise it once Christian's had a look. Template: dokuwiki/system/configure-webserver Type:

Re: [RFR] templates://dokuwiki/{templates} (17 templates)

2010-03-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Specify the directory below the server's docroot from which DokuWiki should be accessible. Maybe s/docroot/document root Good point. Template: dokuwiki/wiki/failpass Type: error _Description: Password confimation failed! ^^

Re: [RFR] templates://dokuwiki/{templates} (17 templates)

2010-03-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: I'd suggest moving the Default: line above _Description:. This is only cosmetic but this is the common way to do things. Anyone who matches this specification will be given full and complete access to DokuWiki's content. ^ Extra space here. Version 3 also

Re: [RFR] templates://sandboxgamemaker/{templates}

2010-03-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Template: sandboxgamemaker/PAS_downloader_q [...] + This content is non free, over 200 MB in size, and will ovewrite the + game content already in /usr/share/sandboxgamemaker. Typo: overwrite. Also, non needs a

Re: phpbb3 templates, asking for advice

2010-03-17 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Before filing a request for review, I would appreciate some advice. Sorry, I haven;t tried to answer your questions, I'm just going to review the texts. Package: phpbb3 [...] Description: A fully featured and skinnable flat (non-threaded) webforum Or, saying the same

Re: [RFR] templates://phpbb3/{templates}

2010-03-21 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: phpbb3-l10n is not yet in the archive, it used to be phpbb2-languages back in Etch, is the name ok? I see five -l10n packages in the archives and only one -languages: lsb-languages, which I suspect means something different. There are also nine -locales and, aha, sixteen

Re: [RFR] templates://qmail/{qmail.templates}

2010-03-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: (for dle readers: this package apparently violates many devref recommendations, particularly about debconf notes abuse. This is indeed a quite specific case, as the qmail package is used to generate qmail-srcmany discussions already happened with the current

Re: [RFR] templates://qmail/{qmail.templates}

2010-03-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates and packages descriptions for the qmail source package. Here's a review of the control file (in annotated diff form). As I mentioned, there's also a control.real with further problems, but that can wait. ---

Re: [RFR] templates://qmail/{qmail.templates}

2010-03-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Jon Marler wrote: I didn't see any emails from Justin. Did he perhaps send it to just the list? If the package descriptions need an update, please let me know when you file the bug. Sorry, I was Ccing qm...@packages.debian.org, but it didn't occur to me to include you directly.

Re: [BTS#575689] templates://sandboxgamemaker/{templates}

2010-03-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: The reviewed templates have been sent as a bug report to the package maintainer. Did you miss my last message? http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2010/03/msg00081.html; -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and

Re: [RFH] libfm package description

2010-03-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Andrew Lee wrote: I need native speakers to help on improving the package description for libfm which is a library that needed for newer version of pcmanfm. It's a new package for newer pcmanfm and also tend to be easy to reuse in other applications which needs file management functions and

Re: [RFH] libfm package description

2010-03-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Andrew Lee wrote: I answered some questions, but not sure if my point of view is appropriated and maybe the description need to be adjust also? Justin B Rye wrote: If this was a library to serve the programming needs of developers, it would belong in libdevel. Describe the function

Re: [RFR] templates://hadoop/{hadoop-namenoded.templates}

2010-03-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: comments but no actual patch attached. Second thoughts and patch. Template: hadoop-namenoded/format [...] The namenode manages the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Like a normal file system, it needs to be formatted before use; otherwise the namenode

Re: [RFR] templates://linux-2.6/{linux-base.templates,templates/temp.image.pla in/templates}

2010-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: (I didn't review the package description) The descriptions in the linux-2.6 family don't obey the d-l-e house style (they talk about flavoUrs, doublespace their sentences, and so on) but I don't see anything that matters. Template: linux-base/disk-id-convert-auto

Re: [RFR] templates://linux-2.6/{linux-base.templates,templates/temp.image.pla in/templates}

2010-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Ben Hutchings wrote: I feel like ID is more appropriate than lowercas id as acronyms are generally using uppercase. However, the current practice and existing documentation may lead to keep id. 'id' is short for 'identifier' and there is no reason to capitalise an abbreviation of a single

Re: [RFR] templates://mini-buildd/{mini-buildd-common.templates,mini-buildd-re p.templates,mini-buildd-bld.templates}

2010-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. I'll start by skimming mini-buildd-rep.templates, not mentioned in your review... Template: mini-buildd-rep/mbd_dists [...] Description: Basis distributions to support: Space separated list of basis

Re: [RFR] templates://linux-2.6/{linux-base.templates,templates/temp.image.pla in/templates}

2010-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 11:45 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: In my case the name of my IOmega Zip drive changed too. Yes, I only had it installed on that machine to see if it would cause trouble, and it still worked as /dev/sdc1. Mind you, I imagine it would be a bit

Re: [RFR] templates://mini-buildd/{mini-buildd-common.templates,mini-buildd-re p.templates,mini-buildd-bld.templates}

2010-04-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: BTW: let's wish a happy birthday to the Smith review project. It's now 3 years since I launched it on April 1st 2007 (with many people thinking it was an April Fool's joke). I'm celebrating by setting up a personal style guide reference page:

Re: dle Style guide

2010-04-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: But, well, I guess it can only be high quality stuff. So, how about turning it into something more official such as a page in the Debian Wiki that could be linked from the DevRef as well? First let's see if any of it turns out to be useful. -- JBR with

Re: Typo on bugzilla3.templates

2010-04-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Adriano Rafael Gomes wrote on d-l-e: I think I found a typo on the following template: http://i18n.debian.net/material/templates/unstable/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_3.2.5.1-2_debian_bugzilla3.templates.gz Please check: s/checksetup-nondebian.pl/checksetup_nondebian.pl/ Yes, the preceding

Re: Typo on bugzilla3.templates

2010-04-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Adriano Rafael Gomes wrote on d-l-e: http://i18n.debian.net/material/templates/unstable/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_3.2.5.1-2_debian_bugzilla3.templates.gz s/checksetup-nondebian.pl/checksetup_nondebian.pl/ Yes, the preceding template gets it right, but this typo passed

Re: Please review announcement about upcoming German Min Conference

2010-04-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! We just drafted an announcement for a Debian Mini Conference during the upcoming LinuxTag in Germany. It should be send out in the coming days, so review (especially by native speakers) would be most welcome. Patch attached, commented version below.

Re: package description : cocot

2010-04-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Yukiharu Yabuki wrote: I would like to get comments for cocot. I am making the package. Before send ITP, I would like to correct descption. (I'm Ccing you instead of assuming you're subscribed; apologies if this is unwelcome.) Description: Encode converter between tty and process This

Re: package description : cocot

2010-04-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Yukiharu Yabuki wrote: Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote: It sounds as if the idea is that you'd run cocot ssh example.org, and it would act as a wrapper translating the output of remote commands into your local iso-2022-jp. Let me know if I'm getting it wrong... Exactly, you are right

Re: DPN frozen

2010-04-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: d-l10n-english settled on using en_US for what we (more others than me, as one might guess) usually review. Yeah, I'm personally more comfortable with en_US, but I can use en_GB. My vote doesn't count for much since I'm not

Re: openswan: Request for review

2010-04-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Harald Jenny wrote: please find attached the template and control file of the openswan-package. In the hope of saving people some effort I'll mention before I start looking at openswan that this time last year we did strongswan: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2009/04/msg00055.html

Re: openswan: Request for review

2010-04-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Harald Jenny wrote: please find attached [...] Just out of habit I'll look at the templates first. (Last minute addition: I almost missed s/X509/X.509/g) Template: openswan/runlevel_changes Type: note _Description: Old runlevel management superseded Previous versions of the Openswan

Re: Request for review: python-apt inline documentation

2010-04-14 Thread Justin B Rye
I'm saving time by not covering anything that Jonathan Nieder has already commented on and not producing an actual patch for the formatted pydoc output. Julian Andres Klode wrote: The style of the attached documentation mostly follows what I've seen in Python: - 'name' for parameter

Re: aeromail: Request for review

2010-04-14 Thread Justin B Rye
I won't got round to amavisd-milter until tomorrow, so until then I'll point you at my stock collection of d-l-e hints: http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/linux/esl.html Harald Jenny wrote: Package: aeromail Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, apache2 | httpd, php5 | php5-cgi,

Re: amavisd-milter: Request for review

2010-04-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: In general, you can't really carry the idea that this is a new program. While in 2010, that makes sense and this is how you want to sell it, this is probably untrue in 2015 when this package is still in the archive but nobody remember about the old behaviour..:-)

Re: [RFR] templates://vidalia/{templates}

2010-04-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: vidalia/info Type: select Choices-C: no, yes-now, yes-always -_Description: Do you want to stop the existing Tor process and let Vidalia start Tor? +_Description: Let Vidalia start Tor after

Re: [RFR] templates://icinga/{icinga-cgi.templates}

2010-04-18 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: icinga/httpd Type: multiselect Choices: apache2 Default: apache2 (Another round of boolean multiple choice!) [...] Template: icinga/adminpassword Type: password

Re: [RFR] templates://icinga/{icinga-cgi.templates}

2010-04-18 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): Description: management system for network hosts - support files I tend to disagree here. I think that the main feature used in Nagios (and thus Icinga) is the monitoring abilitiesso that word IMHO

Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] [RFR] templates://icinga/{icinga-cgi.templates}

2010-04-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Alexander Wirt wrote: This is the right sort of thing, but we want to trim it a bit. Description: management system for network hosts - support files Thats wrong in my eyes. The term is monitoring. Did you have a preference between: Description: monitoring system for network hosts -

Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] [RFR] templates://icinga/{icinga-cgi.templates}

2010-04-21 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): Tollef Fog Heen wrote: any reason not to just call it «host and network monitoring system» which is even one character shorter than the suggestion above. No, that would be fine too. I'd already mentioned the variant

Re: openswan: Request for review

2010-04-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Harald Jenny wrote: Hello Justin B Rye, sorry it took me so long to look into the translations but my private time was limited the last days but I must come back to you because the description part of the control file has a little flaw (please find comment below): [...] Package: openswan

Re: amavisd-milter: Request for review

2010-04-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Harald Jenny wrote: Hello Justin B Rye, please find my remarks below: Package: amavisd-milter Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, amavisd-new (= 2.4.3) Recommends: sendmail (= 8.13.8-3) | postfix (= 2.3.8-2+etch1) Conflicts: amavisd-new-milter Description

Re: Openswan package templates

2010-04-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): Hello, You are noted as the last translator of the debconf translation for openswan. First I want to apologize if the last update you sent was not published but some problems first delayed and finally prevented a

Re: request for review: typo3-dummy

2010-05-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Welzel wrote: Please send your answers as CC to me as i'm not reading here regulary. (Meanwhile, I'm subscribed twice, because I've had so many mail outages recently that I don't trust either route to reach me reliably...) Template: typo3-dummy/apache_mode Type: select __Choices:

Re: [RFR] templates://rinputd/{templates}

2010-05-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] -Template: rinputd/about [...] Template: rinputd/username Type: string Default: rinput -_Description: Username: - This is the user account name for the SASL rinputd login. This has no bearing

Re: request for review: typo3-dummy

2010-05-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Welzel wrote: Template: typo3-dummy/old_symlink Type: note Might it be worth upgrading this to an error? What do you mean by error? I found no type error. Oh, I'd never noticed it wasn't in the original Debconf Spec. See 6.5.3.1.8 here:

Re: [RFR] templates://astk/{astk.templates}

2010-05-22 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] One general thing I'm changing throughout is that astk becomes ASTK where it refers to the software in general rather than the astk package. This is particularly important when we're talking about the ASTK

Re: [RFR] templates://phpbb3/{phpbb3.templates}

2010-05-22 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Please find attached the current templates (that shouldn't evolved until Squeeze is released), and last Jean-Marc thoughts about them: 1) There's always small stuff like sometimes we say user admin then later we say the admin user Maybe one should choose

Re: [RFR2] templates://phpbb3/{phpbb3.templates}

2010-05-22 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: I have a doubt about the use of the word the: although there are some of them in theses templates, it doesn't seem to be everywhere it could, and I'm clueless whether we have to use it or not. Let me see: Template: phpbb3/admin-pass Type: password _Description: Password

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: (please keep crosspost) Two new templates appeared recently in D-I, in the hw-detect component. They're related to the possibility of using driver injection disks to allow using OEM drivers for some devices. This feature was imported from Ubuntu. I think that

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Extra problem: a media that contains? Media is a non-countable noun, so it takes singular agreement. Or to avoid making anybody worry about that, eliminate the need for agreement by saying: Whoops, contains _is_ third-person singular. The thing that sounds so odd about

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I see there is some confusion about this feature. This new udeb provide an automatic way to activate driver debs that are made available as part of the hardware. The internal driver disk is part of the hardware (think USB stick that is part of the BIOS or ILO/DRAC

Re: news about debian-women wiki

2010-05-30 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Ana Guerrero announced that the migration of the Debian-Women wiki into the Debian wiki is now complete. There is still a little bit of work to do: if you want to contribute, take a look at the migration TODO list. Aioanei's s/:/;/ looks plausible, but I'm siding with

Re: [RFR] templates://typo3-dummy/{typo3-dummy.templates}

2010-06-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. (indeed, there have been very few changes) Well, the template did get mentioned on this list earlier this month, so presumably all the obvious problems got hammered out at that stage. I'm glad to get a shot at the

Re: Bug#584508: typo in in message

2010-06-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Ralf Treinen wrote: Disclaimer: I am not a native english speaker either. AFAIK, the rule is purely phonetic: you replace a by an when the next word is pronounced starting with a vowel: an instance, an armour, an estimation, and so on. The interesting case is when a word's spelling starts

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