Re: [copyright-format] English proofreading.

2012-02-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: - Another kind of list value has one value per line. Not straightforward... Doesn't seem so bad. How would you propose rewording it? Shouldn't it be Another type of list has one value per line? The values don't have one value per line - they

Re: [RFR] templates://xfonts-traditional/{xfonts-traditional.templates}

2012-02-09 Thread Justin B Rye
I suspect it would be a waste of effort producing a patch just yet. Christian PERRIER wrote: Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Generate traditional versions of fonts? - xfonts-traditional can automatically generate traditional versions - (with foundry Trad instead of Misc of all

Re: [RFR] templates://xfonts-traditional/{xfonts-traditional.templates}

2012-02-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: I suspect it would be a waste of effort producing a patch just yet. So much for my daydreams of a hundred DDs pouring in with better ideas! Still, I liked Josh Tripplet's approach, so here's a patch adopting that. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Ian Jackson wrote: Wouter Verhelst writes (Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer): A computer cannot refer to itself, because it does not have a self. I'm sorry, but that is completely wrong. README drink me someone me facit README is itself a reference to DRINK

Re: [RFR] templates://golang-weekly/{golang-weekly-tools.templates}

2012-02-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Report installation of public packages to Go Dashboard? + The goinstall program reports the successful installation of the public packages to I assume when it talks about packages here it doesn't mean .debs; saying public

Re: Proof reading

2012-02-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: I need a little bit of help i am dislectic and need some help checking the spelling and grammer is ther some that want to help me. Sure! It's no trouble. its aboud these 3 files, for the comments also. Okay. # lintian gives a waring becouse of file

Re: [RFR] templates://xfonts-traditional/{xfonts-traditional.templates}

2012-02-13 Thread Justin B Rye
In the control file: These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character + set, as UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the + backquote and some other characters. With these fonts, pre-2000 ^ Ian had double space between

Re: [RFR] templates://glance/{glance-api.templates,glance-common.templates}

2012-02-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Default: caching _Description: Pipeline flavor: If you use the OpenStack Identity Service (Keystone), you might want to - select keystone. If you don't use this service, you can safely choose - caching only. \ No newline at end of file + select keystone. If you

Re: Upcoming BSPs announcement: please review and translate

2012-02-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Filipus Klutiero wrote: Thank you Francesca. Here are some remarks: I've acted on all these. I also (on my second try) corrected the Paris BSP URL to http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2012/02/fr/Paris; but I notice that the upcoming York BSP is

Re: New Debian machine for archive mirror announcement ready: please review and translate

2012-02-16 Thread Justin B Rye
MJ Ray wrote: Says: ## When is this announcement likely to be send out? Please keep in mind, Should say (typo or tense): ## When is this announcement likely to be sent out? Please keep in mind, I might as well fix that. I'll also handle FK's nitpick about 48GB, which is my fault for

Re: Patent policy announcement: please review and translate

2012-02-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Filipus Klutiero wrote: pDebian Project Leader, Stefano Zacchiroli saidqThe Debian Project has a long tradition of standing up for users' rights to an entirely Free operating system. Patent fears, uncertainties and doubts undermine this. A patent policy and a contact point for related issues

Re: unable to open file '%s' or unable to open the file '%s'?

2012-02-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: How should I write English messages which contain a named computer entity as an object or a subject? E.g. unable to open (the?) file '%s' unable to close (the?) directory '%s' (the?) file '%s' does not exist If you were trying to write full grammatical

Re: [LCFC] templates://golang/{golang-tools.templates}

2012-03-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for golang. Okay, now my head is spinning! But yes, this looks good for the non-weekly versions. Except... hang on, these ones are new: Package: golang-mode Architecture: all Depends:

Re: [RFR] templates://xen-api/{xcp-networkd.templates}

2012-03-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Template: xcp-xapi/networking_type [...] + The xcp-networkd daemon supports two network backends: standard Linux bridging + and Open vSwitch. Of course xcp-networkd already contains the word daemon... but I've considered various ways of avoiding this and none of

Why The Name?

2012-04-01 Thread Justin B Rye
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Smith Review Project I've created http://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName; as a more appropriate place to keep all my witterings about packagename etymologies... -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and

Re: Bug#661689: Bad formatting of package description, perhaps improvable wording

2012-04-03 Thread Justin B Rye
pierre.saram...@imag.fr wrote: obWhyTheName: something to do with logiciel and éléments finis... Rheolef means rheo + ef. Rheo is a grec word that meas material that flows (water, mud, blood, etc). As in rheostat and various unpleasant forms of -rhea! I suspected that, but it wasn't until

Re: please review initial PO templates for cupt 2.5

2012-04-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Forgot the actual template file. Attached now. .pot files are hard to review out of context, but here's my attempt: #: console/cupt.cpp:109 msgid prints the info about binary package(s) msgstr A very minor general problem: info about binary packages works, but if

Re: please review initial PO templates for cupt 2.5

2012-04-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: #: console/cupt.cpp:114 msgid finds a dependency path between system/package(s) and a package msgstr What does that mean? What, in this context, is a system? In this context system == set of installed packages. Perhaps finds a dependency path between a

Re: [RFR] templates://graphite-carbon/{graphite-carbon.templates}

2012-04-18 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: (I had hard times understading what the package is exactly about as I was working offline. It often is a proof that more information is neededWhat is Graphite? What is a Twisted daemon? etc. There are several layers of baffling names here. AIUI: * Twisted is a

Re: [RFR] wml://{intro/diversity,News/2012/20120420}.wml (Was Bug#669011: Diversity statement for the Debian Project)

2012-04-18 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: In order not to focus too much about what people do (technical/non-technical stuff), and more about welcoming people, I propose to stick with Stefano second proposal: qThis statement marks a new stage in the process of welcoming -contributors in our project/q said

Re: Bug#668706: [RFR] templates://graphite-carbon/{graphite-carbon.templates}

2012-04-18 Thread Justin B Rye
Jonas Genannt wrote: Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote: Why *is* the package called graphite-carbon? It's a set of Python modules called carbon, so doesn't Debian's Python Policy require it to be named python-carbon? Compare python-twisted, python-graphite, and python-whisper

Re: Request for review: Apache2 docs and configuration

2012-04-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Arno Töll wrote: (please CC: me on replies) could someone willing to help us non-native English speakers to review our existing documentation and configuration files for the upcoming Apache2 package supposed to be included in Wheezy? Any help would be welcomed. You can obtain the source

Re: Request for review

2012-04-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Hanke wrote: I'd like to ask you for a review of the debconf template of the 'condor' package -- a recent addition to Debian. I'm attaching the POT file. The template itself is much easier to edit; so my attached patch etc. use that. [...] #. Type: boolean #. Description #:

Re: Request for review

2012-04-27 Thread Justin B Rye
More attempts to understand the User ID domain bit... Since the shared-FS label part seems easier to understand, would it be possible to reorder the debconf questions so that it's asked first? [...] (Oh, and I'm standardising on personal Condor installation) I think standardizing on

Re: [LCFC] templates://graphite-carbon/{graphite-carbon.templates}

2012-04-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for graphite-carbon. [...] Description: backend data caching and persistence daemon for Graphite Graphite is a web application using the Twisted framework to provide real-time visualization and

Re: Request for review [final templates]

2012-04-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Hanke wrote: thanks for all your input regarding the Condor templates. For the record, I'm attaching the current/final state. I will send out a call for translations shortly. One last nitpick: Template: condor/admin Type: string Default: root@localhost _Description: Email address

Re: Request for review: nginx Debconf template and control files

2012-05-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Kartik Mistry wrote: We recently introduced Debconf template into package and we're requesting to review it by list. Our beloved Christian Perrier also suggested to get debian/control reviewed, so I'm attaching both files for review. Okay... unsurprisingly I've spent a lot more time looking

Re: man lsblk: For the partitions are some information inherited from

2012-05-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Regid Ichira wrote: NOTES For the partitions are some information (e.g. queue attributes) inherited from parental device. I am not confident with my English. Is it badly phrased? How it can be improved? It manages to pack a lot of problems into such a short

Re: Bug#672848: please reconsider package description

2012-05-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: reviewing a translation of the package description (1) I'll include it inline for easier reference: # Description: tool to edit disk quotas from the command line # Quotatool is a utility to set filesystem quotas from the commandline. # Most quota-utilities are

Re: Bug#672848: please reconsider package description

2012-05-18 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: diff -ru quotatool-1.4.12.pristine/debian/control quotatool-1.4.12/debian/control I've also submitted a wishlist patch for quota - see #673396. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about

Re: Bug#673688: confusing NEWS.Debian message

2012-05-20 Thread Justin B Rye
(Barging in from d-l-e as usual) Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: [...] I'm not sure if this change really warants an NEWS.Debian entry as for most people it does not change anything and as far as I understand it this is a new additional feature, not a change in ifupdown behavior. Is it really

Re: Debian package descriptions for GNOME introspection

2012-05-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: I have a problem understanding the descriptions for GNOME introspection (1), (2) packages. As their purpose is identical, the descriptions share almost identical paragraphs. I've copied three examples from my todo list. gir1.2-gtop-2.0 This package can

Re: Bug#674192: Please reconsider package description

2012-05-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote (CCing d-l-e): translating the package description I wondered whether the last paragraph could be improved. I'm afraid that it is not just the last paragraph This one's been through debian-l10n-english a couple of times before, so I was already happy with it.

Re: Bug#674192: Please reconsider package description

2012-05-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Justin B Rye wrote: This cron package is configured by default to do some basic daily system maintenance tasks. Other packages, such as checksecurity, can provide further maintenance tasks. [...] Actually, my main concern was Other packages

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Next in alphabetical order, apt-cdrom.8.xml: [...] refsect1titleDescription/title paracommandapt-cdrom/command is used to add a new CDROM to APTs list ^ ^ Missing hyphen in CD-ROM (yes, the dictionary says there's a

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

2012-05-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: ledgersmb/admin_login Type: string Default: ledgersmb +_Description: Database administrative user login: + Please enter the login of the LedgerSMB database administrative user. This + login is

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-25 Thread Justin B Rye
David Kalnischkies wrote: In all other places i followed your suggestion with using disc. Never knew before that a disk is not a disc. I thought this was more of a color vs. colour thing, but yeah, i never really used discs… It *should* have been a matter for $LANG, but alas the IT world has

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
apt-extracttemplates.1.xml is trivial; the only thing I'd suggest for it is refnamediv refnameapt-extracttemplates/refname -refpurposeUtility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages/refpurpose +refpurposeUtility to extract debconf config and templates from

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

2012-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: icinga/check_external_commands Type: boolean Default: false -_Description: Icinga check external commands: +_Description: Use external commands with Icinga? Being a boolean template, it shoul

Re: [Pkg-sql-ledger-discussion] Bug#674023: [RFR] templates://ledgersmb/{templates}

2012-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Robert James Clay wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 04:39 -0400, Justin B Rye wrote: login is needed for the administrative web user interface. I'm not sure what you mean there, as going to something like http://localhost/ledgersmb/setup.pl is how one gets in to it and only

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Two easy ones today: apt-key.8.xml and apt-mark.8.xml. Apt-key: [...] varlistentrytermoptionnet-update/option/term listitem para Work similar to the commandupdate/command command above, but get the archive keyring from an URI instead and validate it against a

Re: [RFR] templates://uptimed/{uprecords-cgi.templates,uptimed.templates}

2012-05-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: uptimed/interval All looks good... Template: uptimed/maxrecords Type: string Default: 50 _Description: Number of records that should be kept: + On systems that reboot frequently, you will

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

2012-05-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] +_Description: Monitoring suite used with NagVis: + The NagVis package supports Icinga as well as + Nagios, using the check-mk-live broker backend. I prefer hyphenated back-end, but since that's the only

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-28 Thread Justin B Rye
LC_COLLATE says it's apt_preferences.5.xml's turn: [...] paraSeveral instances of the same version of a package may be available when the sources-list; file contains references to more than one source. In this case commandapt-get/command downloads the instance listed earliest in the

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-29 Thread Justin B Rye
apt-secure.8.xml turns out to be fairly simple too. I mean, I change a lot of lines, but it's mostly trivial comma-juggling. refsect1titleDescription/title para Starting with version 0.6, commandapt/command contains code [...] (Cobwebby but still true, unless we also need to explain

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-30 Thread Justin B Rye
apt-sortpkgs.1.xml is short and simple, but still gets a patch: [...] paracommandapt-sortpkgs/command will take an index file (Source index or Package index) and sort the records so that they are ordered by the package name. Why capitalised Source and Package? Shouldn't it either be

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-05-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Last in the list (before I start backtracking), sources.list.5.xml. This is another one where I could do with some feedback, but I attach a patch anyway. [...] refnamediv refnamesources.list/refname refpurposePackage resource list for APT/refpurpose /refnamediv Package resource

Re: [RFR] templates://nginx/{nginx-naxsi-ui.templates}

2012-05-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Hmm, this smells familiar. Aha, yes - http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2012/05/msg2.html (You'd think a name like nginx-naxsi-ui would be harder to forget.) _Description: Database host for naxsi:

Re: Bug#675237: [RFR] templates://nginx/{nginx-naxsi-ui.templates}

2012-05-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: _Description: Database host for naxsi: - Please specify the hostname of the server where the naxsi Web Application - Firewall's database should be located. + Please specify the hostname of the server that will host the database + for the naxsi web application

Re: [LCFC] wml://{intro/diversity,News/2012/20120420}.wml [Let's release an announcement tomorrow?]

2012-06-05 Thread Justin B Rye
p The strongtechnical/strong part of Debian Project is already ^ Insert the here and below. If I was doing stylistic edits I'd suggest s/part/side/, but that's getting too close to changing the content for my liking. committed to diversity: we don't

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-06-06 Thread Justin B Rye
David Kalnischkies wrote: So how about these two paragraphs instead: para Once the uploaded package is verified and included in the archive, the maintainer signature is stripped off, and checksums of the package are computed and put in the Packages file. The checksums of all of

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

2012-06-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Christian PERRIER wrote: To my ear Such-and-such objective requires doing X sounds fine, and the only trouble here is that the reader has to pause for a few moments to figure out what it is that is being activated. Agreed. By the way, what is a language package?

Re: Request for Review: APT manpages

2012-06-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Ben Finney wrote: David Kalnischkies writes: Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote:      refpurposeDistribution definitions for APT/refpurpose On second thoughts this is rubbish. Maybe refpurposeList of sources to acquire package information from/refpurpose ? The established term

Re: review debconf templates of fglrx-driver [non-free]

2012-06-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Andreas Beckmann wrote: So, what about this extension of the above template: You should use the free radeon driver (package: xserver-xorg-video- radeon) for these cards. Note: The fglrx-driver package needs to be purged (removal is not sufficient) and fglrx configuration

Re: review debconf templates of fglrx-driver [non-free]

2012-06-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Yes, that would be clear. My only concern is about the template length. Too verbose templates are split and users need to scroll to read them, in 80x25 text displays (or in small terminals). How about this as a squeezed version: Template:

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

2012-06-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Before going into details, I'd like to mention that templates seem a bit lengthy to me (they certainly don't fit on a 80x25 screen and need to be scrolled down which is not always obvious with debconf). Shortening them would be nice, but I didn't find any good idea

Re: Bug#677303: [RFR] templates://screen/{templates}

2012-06-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Axel Beckert wrote: -_Description: Previous screen binary has been copied to /tmp/screen-4.0.3 +_Description: Warning: upgrading screen with an active session I dislike this version as it reads as this is something which is generally the case (which it is not). I though like the idea of the

Re: [RFR] templates://ipsec-tools/{racoon.templates}

2012-06-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Things are moving fast, we must be close to a freeze! [...] Racoon can be configured two ways, either by directly editing /etc/racoon/racoon.conf or using the racoon-tool administrative front end. I was going

Re: [RFR] templates://ipsec-tools/{racoon.templates}

2012-06-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Description: IPsec utilities IPsec (Internet Protocol security) offers end-to-end security for network traffic at the IP layer. . This package is a port of the utilities from the KAME IPsec implementation on BSD. Correction: actually my patch says

Re: Bug#677713: [RFR] templates://ipsec-tools/{racoon.templates}

2012-06-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Matthew Grant wrote: Justin B Rye wrote: Justin B Rye wrote: Description: IPsec utilities IPsec (Internet Protocol security) offers end-to-end security for network traffic at the IP layer. . This package is a port of the utilities from the KAME IPsec implementation on BSD

Re: New Debconf template for the nova source package

2012-06-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Goirand wrote: Template: nova-compute-xen/xenapi_url Type: string Default: https://my-dom0.example.com _Description: Address of the XenAPI dom0: Nova Compute Xen needs to know the address of the server running XenAPI. This can be a server running XenServer, the Citrix CentOS XCP

Re: [TAF] Please check the DebConf13 cover letter english version

2012-06-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: \def\DCsignatureappendix{\\\footnotesize on behalf of the DebConf13 organisation team} Assuming the -isation is deliberate en_GB, the only line I'd nitpick is: DebConf has a close association with the academic community from many universities in Europe, USA, and

Re: [Openstack-devel] New Debconf template for the nova source package

2012-06-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Goirand wrote: Nova Compute Xen needs to know the address of the server running XenAPI. You can enter an IP address, or a fully qualified domain name if it resolves correctly. . This may be a server running Citrix XenServer, the CentOS Xen Cloud Patform (XCP) appliance installed from

Re: Bug#678257: Typos in package description, rewording proposal

2012-06-23 Thread Justin B Rye
[Oops, this didn't go out when I thought it did. Re-sending:] Yes it did, it just isn't getting through to the d-l-e list. Has lists.debian.org taken a dislike to me again? -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Type: select Choices: ${essid_list}, Enter ESSID manually Description: Select wireless network - Select desired network name (ESSID) to attempt to connect. + Select desired network name (ESSID) attempt connecting to. Hmmm, Sorina, I'm not sure this is really an

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Select the wireless network name (ESSID) to use during this installation process. [...] I like this variant most. Thanks for the suggestion Joey. I suggest to drop name and to just say the installation process: Select the

Re: Bug#679900: package description copied from manual page

2012-07-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Dear Perl Maintainers, translating the description (1) I wondered whether it is too technical. Actually the text appears to be copied from the manual page (2). Description: Perl module containing stack trace and stack trace frame objects (I suppose we

Re: [RFR] templates://tomoyo-tools/{tomoyo-tools.templates}

2012-07-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates for the tomoyo-tools source package. As usual recently, I've been lazy and left the package descriptions to Justin..:-) That's fine! [...] _Description: Enable Tomoyo Linux in boot time? ^^

Re: [Pkg-fedora-ds-maintainers] Bug#679870: Bug#679870: [RFR] templates://389-ds-base/{389-ds-base.templates}

2012-07-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Timo Aaltonen wrote: now lintian complains: W: 389-ds: description-contains-duplicated-word the the but I don't see why. Oh, sorry, I see it: | Package: 389-ds [...] | . | This is a metapackage depending on the the LDAPv3 server, the HTTP ^^^

Re: Bug#680936: package description too historical

2012-07-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Erik Esterer wrote: Dear Fonts Task Force, while translating the package description of fonts-gfs-neohellenic I checked the descriptions of fonts-gfs-* packages and I think they are too historic. E.g. the description of fonts-gfs-neohellenic[1] has the most important information (What does

Re: Bug#680936: package description too historical

2012-07-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: the times they are a changin' … Until today I felt I could unconditionally rely on the JBR patch ;-) I felt fairly sure it would need a couple more drafts anyway. New Greek font family with matching Latin New Hellenic is a round, and almost monoline Greek

Re: Bug#680936: package description too historical

2012-07-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Corrections: Justin B Rye wrote: Description: new Greek font family with matching Latin s/new/modern/? New Hellenic is a Greek font family characterized by round, even pen s/New Hellenic/Neohellenic/? In fact there seems to be some confusion about the correct English name for this font

Re: review request for the debconf templates used by the nvidia graphics driver [non-free]

2012-07-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Andreas Beckmann wrote: Debconf notes are of course deprecated, though then again so are Didn't know that. And lintian didn't tell me :-) I suppose I am overstating it, but there is for instance DevRef 6.5.1 urging that they be avoided where possible. Oh, and a lintian check

xfonts-intl-phonetic: package description review

2012-07-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: xfonts-intl-phonetic Version: 1.2.1-8 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I noticed a couple of minor spelling/language issues in the package descriptions for xfonts-intl-phonetic and emacs-intl-fonts, and naturally ended up reviewing the whole control file. (This isn't connected to the

Re: Bug#681215: Package description too detailed

2012-07-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: I'm sorry to say that IMHO the package description (1) has a number of problems: - The description is copied from upstream (2). Not intrinsically bad, but it explains the rest. - Upstream had a list of 6 items that have become one big fat paragraph in

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-07-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: I am planning to send out a call for translation update. But before doing so, I would like to have the template po file (apt-listbugs.pot) reviewed by native English speakers, since most of the previous maintainers and both current maintainers are not native speakers.

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-07-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian;hb=HEAD An easier one to review. Commented original below, diff and revised version attached. --- The Debian Package apt-listbugs

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-07-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs.git;a=blob;f=apt-listbugs;hb=HEAD Again, inline comments, attached revisions. [...] apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. Especially, it is

Re: Bug#681417: Please reconsider package description

2012-07-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Description: Standard Widget Toolkit for GTK+ Java library Having a look at the short description itself one could misunderstand it as too much capitalisation. Actually it does not obey the Developer's Reference recommendations (2): It repeats the package

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-07-14 Thread Justin B Rye
On Thu, Jul 12, Francesco Poli wrote: (Sorry, for some reason this never reached me, so I've had to copy http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2012/07/msg00057.html) When I said template po file, I was referring to the .pot file which is generated by xgettext - as described in

Re: Package description review for CycloGraph

2012-07-22 Thread Justin B Rye
Federico Brega wrote: I'm packaging CycloGraph for debian and I'd appreciate if some native english speaker reviews my package description. Glad to! I hope you don't mind being CCed... I also attached a draft of the user manual, whose first part might be useful if some more information is

Re: Package description review for CycloGraph

2012-07-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Federico Brega wrote: CycloGraph aims to be great at producing graphically appealing images to document the stages of a race or to be shown on web pages and journals. (If the journals aren't web pages, what are they? Oh well.) Do you think newspaper is a better term, or it's just a

Re: Minor package description issues

2012-07-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Package: rawtherapee Version: 4.0.9-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch (You didn't CC d-l-e, but I saw it anyway!) Hi Philipp, the package description (1) seems to intend three paragraphs, but there is a formatting error to display it this way (2).

Re: Bug#682802: Package description issues

2012-07-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Dear Debian Med Packaging Team, I believe that the package description (1) is not what you intended. There is an extra space at the beginning of the fifth line of the long description that breaks the formatting (2). And I'm afraid there is a missing word in

Re: Translatable software names in package descriptions synopsis

2012-07-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: recently I filed a bug on a package description and - as usual - got a comment from debian-l10n-english. Now, I can see how a synopsis that does double duty as a description of the software and an explanation of its abbreviated name is going to make life

Re: Bug#682835: Package description too specific

2012-07-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: the package description (1) contains examples for specific tasks. Perhaps I'm not the only one who prefers more generic information. [...] I suggest the following as a starting point for a package description rewrite. Description: HTML/XHTML/XML string

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

2012-07-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Template: hoteldruid/configure-apache [...] + HotelDruid runs on any web server supporting PHP, but automatic + configuration can only be performed for Apache. Better English? (Justin, do you confirm? I may very well have turned it into Frenglish) They're both

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

2012-07-31 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Justin B Rye a écrit : Christian PERRIER wrote: + Once configured, HotelDruid can be accessed locally at + http://localhost/hoteldruid. Maybe the URL should be enclosed in angle brackets, as advised in uri(7), so the last dot won't hurt. Angles are one option

Re: Bug#683182: [RFR] templates://hoteldruid/{templates}

2012-08-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: I slightly reformulated the template to take into account that it is shown during package purge. See attached file (which also incorporates last suggestions by David and Justin). [...] Template: hoteldruid/purgedata Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Purge

Re: Fw: Bug#674569: please improve package description of poppler-data

2012-08-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Hideki Yamane wrote: Justin B Rye wrote: Users who want to view or create PDF files in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean will need this package. Not all PDF files in CJK, but some PDF files without embedded fonts. How about this? Users who want to view or create PDF files without

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

2012-08-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Template: keystone/auth-token Type: string -_Description: Auth server admin token: +_Description: Authentication server administration token: + Please enter the token to use with the authentication + server. Just some wild guess. I have no idea about what

Re: [RFR] wml://international/l10n/pseudo-urls.wml

2012-08-11 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: [...] p The istate/i can be one of the following: TAF, ITT, RFR, LCFC, BTS#lt;bug numbergt; or DONE. /p In fact it *must* be one of (or perhaps can be any of) the following. Are we going for en_US here? If so it probably ought to have a comma before the or (that style is

Re: [RFR] wml://international/l10n/pseudo-urls.wml

2012-08-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: liIndicates that translation is done, change from the review process have been incorporated, and translation will be send to the appropriate place./li liIndicates that the translation is finished, with changes from the review

Re: [RFR] wml://international/l10n/pseudo-urls.wml

2012-08-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: liIndicates that translation is done, change from the review process ^s Third time lucky - also fixing one s/LCFC's/LCFCs/ and changing my mind about putting BTS in quotes. Oh, and... it says that the state should

Re: [RFR2] wml://international/l10n/pseudo-urls.wml

2012-08-12 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: liUsed to put a translation on hold, when the original version has changed or is about to change and any work done on updates now is likely to be wasted./li In this version the and any work done on updates now is likely to be wasted is

Re: Advice request for tinysvm package description

2012-08-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Giulio Paci wrote: TinySVM is an implementation of Support Vector Machines (SVMs), This use of the plural seems mildly odd, and the expansion of SVM has the drawback that Wikipedia thinks explaining what a support vector is requires about a page of equations (and terms like biased

Re: Request for review of NEWS and README.Debian in PHP

2012-08-21 Thread Justin B Rye
Ondřej Surý wrote: 1. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php.git;a=blob;f=debian/php5-cgi.NEWS;hb=HEAD (Silently fixing articles throughout, but ignoring stylistic issues like single quotes and spaces after stops): * As a security measure the default configuration for Apache 2 has

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

2012-08-22 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] I agree with all your changes, but found some more things to change in between. ipvsadm can activate the IPVS synchronization daemon. master starts this daemon in master mode, backup in backup mode and

Re: Bug#685822: Please rewrite package description

2012-08-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Description: Interactive Graphics Language Editor The short description is outdated - upstream (2) now calls it Graphics Layout Engine. That's better - why would I want to edit a graphics language? And there was never an excuse for the capital I on Interactive. (Besides which, how did

Re: [RFR] templates://chef-solr/{chef-solr.templates}

2012-08-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: -Description: New password for the 'chef' AMQP user in the RabbitMQ vhost /chef: - Set the password for the chef user in the AMQP server queue. Use - RabbitMQ's rabbitmqctl program to set this password. The default user - and vhost are assumed (chef and /chef,

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