Re: [RFR] templates://firmware-nonfree/{templates/templates.license.in}

2012-08-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: [...] + If you do not agree, the installation will be cancelled. [...] + The installation of this package has been cancelled. Few changes. Only a spelling fix. Sorry, Christian, this is a (particularly fiddly) en_GB-versus-en_US spelling rule difference. Should I

Re: [RFR] templates://firmware-nonfree/{templates/templates.license.in}

2012-08-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Sorry, Christian, this is a (particularly fiddly) en_GB-versus-en_US spelling rule difference. Ah, doh. Just learned something (which I'll probably forget soon)..:-) So no double l in en_US? In en_GB, the general rule is that a final short vowel plus single

Re: [RFR] templates://citadel/{control,citadel-server.templates}

2012-08-27 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Make template translatable by prepending _ (the actual reason while I've spotted this package), and use of an article. Other member of the list may have other remarks and improvements to propose, thus this formal call for review. Well, the citadel/LoginType template has a

Re: Bug#686027: [RFR] templates://citadel/{control,citadel-server.templates}

2012-08-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Template: citadel/BadUser Type: error _Description: Non-existing user The username you entered does not exist. You need to specify an already existing username with external authentication systems. Non-existing should be nonexistent, and I'm not sure what that last

Re: Bug#685822: Please rewrite package description

2012-08-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian T. Steigies wrote: I read it as just claiming to provide fonts which are as good as LaTeX fonts are (however good that is). It was only later that I learned that it does this by actually using LaTeX. So shouldn't there be some sort of package dependency on LaTeX? As far as I

Re: [RFR] templates://git-stuff/{control,git-stuff.templates}

2012-08-28 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates and packages descriptions for the citadel source package. s/citadel/git-stuff/ [...] Template: git-repack-repositories/enable Type: boolean Default: false -Description: Git repack: - Git repositories tend to grow quite

Re: Bug#685822: Please rewrite package description

2012-08-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Jan Struyf wrote: Dear Justin and Christian, (Actually I didn't receive a copy, since I'm only on the d-l-e mailinglist, not subscribed to the bug, but fortunately I check this sort of thing!) I'm not talking about a build-time dependency; I'm reading the bits in the upstream description that

Re: [RFR] templates://git-stuff/{control,git-stuff.templates}

2012-08-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): When should the cron job be started? Then you get a lintian warning..:-). We always recommended against interrogative form in long descriptions. So such sentences have to be turned in to Please choose whether foobar

Re: English review of the templates of MiniUPnPd 1.7-4

2012-08-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Goirand wrote: Template: miniupnpd/start_daemon Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon? Right now or regularly? _Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon at boot? Select if the MiniUPnP daemon should started automatically at boot time.

Re: [RFR] templates://jffnms/{templates,control}

2012-08-29 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Template: jffnms/install-error Type: select -Choices: abort, retry, retry (skip questions) +__Choices: abort, retry, retry (skip questions) Make the choices translatable, separately. Default: abort -Description: Error installing database for jffnms:

Re: [RFR] templates://lsh-utils/{lsh-server.templates,control}

2012-08-29 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: [...] Other members of the list may have other remarks and improvements to propose, thus this formal call for review. Yes, again the other templates in the package could do with a few changes. Template: lsh-server/lshd_port Type: string Default: 22 _Description: lsh

Re: Bug#686182: Please allow translation of all debconf templates

2012-08-30 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot quoted: Template: grub/migrate_from_legacy Type: note _Description: Upgrading from GRUB Legacy GRUB 0.97, the Legacy version of GNU GRUB, is from now on considered a deprecated option. Your system is now being upgraded to GRUB 2. . GRUB 2 features a more advanced

Re: [RFR] templates://mathematica-fonts/{templates,control}

2012-08-30 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: -Description: Installer of Mathematica fonts +Description: installer of Mathematica fonts s/of/for/ + This package downloads Mathematica fonts through Internet and installs them, because the license prohibits distribution of + the fonts. Please note that the fonts

Re: [RFR] templates://nvidia-support/{nvidia-support.templates,nvidia-installer-cleanup.templates,control}

2012-08-30 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: _Description: Run nvidia-installer --uninstall? The nvidia-installer program was found on this system. This is + probably left over from an earlier installation of the non-free NVIDIA + graphics driver, installed using the NVIDIA *.run file directly. This installation

Re: Bug#686313: Please allow translation of all debconf templates

2012-08-31 Thread Justin B Rye
I notice that one of byobu's five template po files is an en_GB.po that just uses exactly the same strings as the en_US default. Christian PERRIER wrote: Template: byobu/launch-by-default Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Do you want to launch Byobu at shell login for all users?

Re: [RFR] templates://byobu/{templates,control}

2012-08-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: byobu Depends: [...] tmux (= 1.5) | screen Recommends: screen, tmux (= 1.5), [...] Enhances: screen That's odd. Description: powerful, text based window manager and shell multiplexer The expression text-based seems to be there as a sort of awkward hint that it doesn't in

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

2012-09-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for ipvsadm. [...] Template: ipvsadm/kernel_does_not_support_ipvs Type: error _Description: Kernel does not support IPVS ipvsadm is useless with this kernel, since it has CONFIG_IP_VS=n. Please

Re: Improving imagemagick.bug-presubj

2012-09-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: This would make it: Looking at this again, I'm not convinced it works as a series of steps (even with item 1 moved back to the end). Two of the steps are if-clauses; the rest of them are parts of the process of recreating the bug under controlled conditions, but it never

Re: [LCFC] templates://lsh-utils/{lsh-server.templates,control}

2012-09-05 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: Thank you Justin, I agree with all your changes and have no remark after your last version [0], so I don't reattach the files, and thank you in advance for your last remarks. I was vaguely hoping there was still a chance someone would pop up and suggest some extra material

Re: Bug#686207: [LCFC] templates://lazarus/{lcl-utils.templates,control}.in

2012-09-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Paul Gevers wrote: I like to contribute to the description of this package, but don't have the time to do that right now. Maybe I can have a look next week if the review isn't finished by than. Official reviews allow for a lot more time than you might have guessed from my hasty replies.

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-09-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: [...] * -S stats | --stats stats - Status you want to see separated by comma. Default: [forwarded,done,pending,pending-fixed] + Status you want to see, separated by commas. Default: [forwarded,done,pending,pending-fixed] Sorry for asking this so late, but I

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-09-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: Then the next problem is that the user isn't asking to see statuses; the user wants to see bugs filtered by status. Things would be simpler if it was -F for filters... maybe you could say: Bug-status filters you want to see matches for, separated by commas. [...]

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-09-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: I was assuming apt-listbugs was offering to filter the bugs you want to see by status; but that would make the default a very strange filter! No, it's offering to include these status-flags in the output; in other words, they're the Statuses (of the bugs) that you want

Re: Questions about BTS SOAP interface pending attribute

2012-09-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Hi, I'm the one who's been stumbling over the terminology in apt-listbugs(1), so thanks a lot for this explanation. Excuse me if I just parrot it back at you to be sure I understand it. Once I'm sure I've got it I'll make sure it's also documented on http://wiki.debian.org/Glossary; (unless

Re: Questions about BTS SOAP interface pending attribute

2012-09-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: Once I'm sure I've got it I'll make sure it's also documented on http://wiki.debian.org/Glossary; (unless someone else gets there first). I am not sure that those names fit really well in that glossary (which seems to be much more end-user oriented)... It's oriented

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-09-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: and I'm not going to try rushing off ahead until I know whether I'm on the right track at last. Fair enough. I hope I will be able to clarify the last cryptic bits, as soon as we get a reply from Debbugs maintainers... Before I forget where we were in all this, here's

Re: About Glossary licensing [was: Re: Questions about BTS SOAP interface pending attribute]

2012-09-08 Thread Justin B Rye
I'm fairly sure I don't understand how traditional copyright law applies to wikis in the first place. If the default is a nonfree license that doesn't grant anybody the right of modification, doesn't that make all contributors criminals automatically? Francesco Poli wrote: I am hesitant about

Re: Review request for apt-listbugs template po file

2012-09-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Wow, that's a major rewrite of part of the man page! Do you release it under the same license terms as apt-listbugs (GPLv2 or later [1])? Sure, this and any other material I contribute. Maybe I ought to have some sort of default licensing statement in my

Re: About Glossary licensing

2012-09-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: This may well be true for the kinds of Free Works that C programmers produce, but if I create an oil painting, a license that tries to describe the situation in terms of source code and object code is just introducing irrelevant complications. Let's not complicate

Re: adding infos to pseudo-urls.wml

2012-09-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Stéphane Blondon wrote: Some changes require to add information into an english file (http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/international/l10n/pseudo-urls.wml). - What do you think about these changes? - As it's not my native tongue, perhaps someone here could improve/fix

Re: New templates related to IPv6 in Debian Installer

2012-09-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: The templates to review are those marke with # IPv6 comment. I've attached a patch and revised versions only touching those templates, but also a more thoroughgoing patch. Template: netcfg/use_autoconfig Type: boolean Default: true # IPv6 # :sl6: _Description:

Re: [RFR] templates://bacula/{bacula-director-db.templates.in}

2012-09-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Template: bacula-director-XX_DB_XX/unsafe-director-password-was-changed +Type: error +_Description: Unsafe bacula-director password changed + Old versions of bacula packages shipped with an unsafe default password + for bacula-director service access. It seems that

Re: please review updated templates for fglrx-driver [non-free]

2012-09-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Andreas Beckmann wrote: Template: fglrx-driver/install-even-if-unsupported-gpu-exists Type: boolean Default: false #flag:translate!:3 _Description: Install Fglrx driver despite unsupported graphics card? The following graphics chipset found in your system is no longer handled by the Fglrx

Re: Bug#686207: [LCFC] templates://lazarus/{lcl-utils.templates,control}.in

2012-09-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Paul Gevers wrote: In the control.in file, I notice a lot of metapackages which had not architecture: all. This is not really translation related but anyway. I could imaging that it ensures that on all platforms it depends on the correct version in that architecture, but is that really what we

Re: Clarification plan for apt-listbugs filtering options

2012-09-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesco Poli wrote: [...] * -S state | --stats state Filter bugs by pending-state, showing only the bugs matching a specified value. List the pending-state categories that you want to see, separated by commas and in the desired order. Default:

Re: adding infos to pseudo-urls.wml

2012-09-16 Thread Justin B Rye
Stéphane Blondon wrote: [...] dl dt ttTAF/tt (iTravail À Faire/i) /dt ddSent by a strongcoordinator/strong to indicate that there is a document that needs to be worked on.br / If you didn't see such message about a document needing a translation, please don't send it

Re: adding infos to pseudo-urls.wml

2012-09-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Stéphane Blondon wrote: ddSent to indicate that you plan to work on the translation; used to avoid double work.br / In case someone send an tt[itt]/tt message after you started the translation (you send the itt message, isn't it?), send a message immediately on the

Re: Bug#688671: Please review package description boilerplate and line up short descriptions

2012-09-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: reviewing the translation of libhepmc-dev (1) I asked myself whether the wording (copied from upstream (2)) is correct. I'm a German native and quite confident in my command of the English language. So the event record is my problem. Shouldn't it be an event

Re: [RFR] New description for fwknop

2012-09-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Franck Joncourt wrote: I am currently adding a new binary package in the fwknop source package. The binary package is going to be called libfko-perl and here could be the description : I'd recommend basing it on the description for the other packages in the fwknop suite (which last passed

Re: need help to make better description of ruby-locale

2012-09-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Hleb Valoshka wrote: I'm packaging ruby gem ruby-locate, there is its current description: Ruby-LocaTe would be a different library! (What no short-description line?) Ruby-Locale is the pure Ruby library which provides basic APIs for localization. That's a pure Ruby library which provides

Re: [Debconf-team] [RFR] Please check the DebConf13 sponsoring brochure English version

2012-10-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Philipp Hug wrote: Could you please remove the following sentence: Donations in excess of value received may be tax-deductible depending on your own situation; check with your tax advisor for details. As this is about sponsoring and not about donations, this is not really relevant here. A

Re: [RFR] Please check the DebConf13 sponsoring brochure English version

2012-10-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Luca Capello wrote: Would it be possible to proofread the attached file aimed at potential DebConf13 sponsors (in Switzerland and elsewhere)? The attached DC13-brochure_r3739.en.pdf gives you an idea on how the brochure would look like and the attached DC13-brochure_r3739.en.tex is the actual

Re: [Debconf-team] [RFR] Please check the DebConf13 sponsoring brochure English version

2012-10-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Luca Capello wrote: Contribution in CHF 2'000 2'000 6'000 12'000 25'000 Apostrophes as thousand-separators? Not even with CHF! (Is there a TeX trick to make them localise automatically?) According to IBM (from Wikipedia) that is how it should be done (and indeed UBS

Re: Review of php5-cgi NEWS file

2012-10-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Ondřej Surý wrote: could you please check the new paragraph I have just added to php5-cgi NEWS file? It should warn the people to check the PHP (mainly FastCGI) configuration as described in #687307. That is: | php5 (5.4.4-5) unstable; urgency=low | | Please be aware that the mime-support

Re: DPN 21/2012 frozen. Please review and translate.

2012-10-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Guo Yixuan wrote: I just hope to have my name in the correct order in this issue. I have a Chinese name, where the family name _precedes_ the given name[1], thus I wish to keep this order in the latinized version. FYI, in Chinese characters, my name is 郭溢譞, and it also appears in my pubkey

Re: Aufnahmeantrag

2012-11-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Holger Wansing wrote: burkhard pranke burkhard.pra...@gmail.com wrote: [submission to be added to the Who uses Debian list] I have translated this into english. debian-l10n-english in CC: proofread my translation please, as I am not a native english speaker. Are those pages standardising

Re: Bug#680640: [libc-ares2] name resolves in descriptions

2012-11-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Filipus Klutiero wrote: The short description reads: library for asynchronous name resolves One can say that foo.com resolves to 192.168.0.1, but - although I am not a native speaker of English - I don't think resolves can be used in the sense of name resolutions. The noun resolves exists,

Re: Typo on packages.debian.org section

2012-11-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Simon Paillard wrote: Luke Faraone wrote: In http://packages.debian.org/unstable/, it reads Other OS's and file systems. Since OS isn't possessive it should be Other OSs and file systems or Other OSes and file systems Thanks for the notice, CC'ing english natives for review :) I would

Re: kismet 2011.03.R2-1: Please review debconf PO/control for the package kismet

2012-11-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Enabling this feature allows users in the kismet group to run Kismet (and capture packets, change wireless card state, etc), so only thoroughly trusted users should be granted membership of the group. But then accidentally typed: Enabling this feature allows users

Re: kismet 2011.03.R2-1: Please review debconf PO/control for the package kismet

2012-11-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Nick Andrik wrote: Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk: Kismet needs root privileges for some of its functions. To minimize the amount of code that runs with elevated privileges (and reduce the risk of bugs doing system-wide damage) it is recommended to install Kismet with the setuid

Re: kismet 2011.03.R2-1: Please review debconf PO/control for the package kismet

2012-11-08 Thread Justin B Rye
No actual proposed changes here, just chit-chat. Nick Andrik wrote: Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk: Do you mean (Desktop) PCs or computers that are personal? Saying personal computers makes it sound as if you *don't* mean to include laptops (or palmtops and so on), but form factor isn't

Re: kismet 2011.03.R2-1: Please review debconf PO/control for the package kismet

2012-11-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Nick Andrik wrote: So, we do not include why the name, right? No, but I've added it to the wiki page! At this point, should I prepare the updated files and send them again in the list? Yes, there's no need to hang around on this list any longer, you can get back to debian-i18n. -- JBR

Re: lacie-uboot : Please review the description

2012-11-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: I'm in the process of packaging my first debian package, it will be named lacie-uboot (if it's accepted of course) and the description I wanted to add to the package was : Description : lacie u-boot netconsole shell Well, for a start it needs to be LaCie U-Boot.

Re: lacie-uboot : Please review the description

2012-11-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: Description : lacie u-boot netconsole shell Well, for a start it needs to be LaCie U-Boot. Alright, my bad, I though capital letter were not authorized. The rule is just that short descriptions don't get any *extra* capital letters (compare the way a sentence gets

Re: lacie-uboot : Please review the description

2012-11-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: If it's okey with everyone, I'll use this description and name for my package (and adjust all the names and manuals). By the way, should the manual of the package be reviewed here too ? If you like. I don't usually treat man pages as a high priority; people only read

Re: lacie-uboot : Please review the description

2012-11-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): Package: lacie-uboot Architecture: all Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: sometfpd Description: LaCie U-Boot netconsole shell LaCie network storage products offer a U-Boot netconsole, which can be accessed using

Re: lacie-uboot : Please review the description

2012-11-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: LaCie Network-Attached Storage products offer a U-Boot netconsole, which can be accessed using the tools provided in this package: * lacie-uboot-shell - a simple interactive client which can connect to the U-Boot netconsole using only a network cable; *

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

2012-12-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Template: sheepdog/start Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Automatically start the sheepdog service? Please choose whether you want the shhepdog service to start automatically when the system is booted. Typo: s/shhep/sheep/. And no need to phrase it as a

Re: [Openstack-devel] Bug#694518: [RFR] templates://sheepdog/{sheepdog.templates}

2012-12-04 Thread Justin B Rye
YunQiang Su wrote: Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote: Shouldn't this start with something like: Please choose the commandline arguments that should be passed to the sheepdog daemon. If no argument is given, the default behavior is to start with the corosync driver

Re: [Openstack-devel] Bug#694518: [RFR] templates://sheepdog/{sheepdog.templates}

2012-12-05 Thread Justin B Rye
YunQiang Su wrote: Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote: (Does that mean with 7000 as the corosync driver port or is it two things, start on port 7000, using the corosync driver? Or will sheepdog users find it obvious?) This port is for server Qemu. This port is nothing matter

Re: Bug#695213: Typos in package description

2012-12-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Dear Debian Multimedia Maintainers, I think that there are some typos and potential for improvements in the package description (1). (CCed l10n-english as it is a new package). Current state: Description: Internet television and radio player FreetuxTV

Re: Bug#695213: Typos in package description

2012-12-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Yes, that's got a few non-nativisms. :-) Are you saying you can hear the French accent by just reading this package's description? :-) The package description for freetuxtv, yes - the word differents is a dead giveaway. A search tells me it also occurs in

pidgin-themes: package description review

2012-12-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: pidgin-themes Version: 0.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n patch The package description for pidgin-themes is in pidgin-English. # Package: pidgin-themes # Architecture: all # Depends: pidgin (I don't see why this needs to be any stronger than Suggests, but I'll leave it.) #

Re: pybit 0.4.0-1: template review

2012-12-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Neil Williams wrote: OK - the initial templates were a bit rushed. Sending on to l10n-english with templates.pot re-attached. I was bored, so I got started on reviewing it before the template files turned up! But no patch yet... [...] #. Type: string #. Description #:

Re: pybit 0.4.0-1: template review

2012-12-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Oh, and just before I hit send the templates arrive... So here's my patch, mostly as promised. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package diff -ru old/pybit-client.templates new

Re: Help with control file

2013-01-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Nandaja Varma wrote: I am packaging ruby-jnunemaker-matchy right now. I am facing real difficulty with the description of the gem as the description in upstream is little. I have made it as jargon free as I can. If someone would go through the description and help me out in making it better,

Re: Debian Project News 1/2013 frozen. Please review and translate.

2013-01-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Francesca Ciceri wrote: we just finished the last bits of the new issue of DPN to be released Monday. We would appreciate reviews and translations. The Other news section doesn't look very finished - it's just the headlines from the previous edition with no content attached. -- JBR with

Re: Bug#697656: Please rewrite package description boilerplate

2013-01-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Dear Maintainers, the package descriptions of the *gupnp-av* packages (1) were a little bit hard to understand for me. My main concern is the boilerplate as used in (2): [...] For a library (which will be pulled in by dependencies when needed) there's much less

Re: Bug#697656: Please rewrite package description boilerplate

2013-01-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. It provides DIDL parser/writer and search criteria-parser objects. ^^ I meant to say

Re: Errors in package descriptions

2013-01-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: Dear Maintainers, I found some copy and paste errors in the package descriptions. The attached patch will fix it. It would be a pity if the other obvious problems in the package descriptions weren't addressed at the same time. # Package: rtai [...] #

Re: Please review package description of (open)motif

2013-01-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Paul Gevers wrote: [Please keep cc in the loop.] Currently, Graham and I are working on getting (open)motif [1] in shape for inclusion in main. While I was going through the package I was unhappy with the current description of the binary packages. I have already extended the description of

Re: Please review package description of (open)motif

2013-01-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Paul Gevers wrote: Agreeing with your argument, I would go for Description: Motif Window Manager Oh! Hurrah. [...] contains the Motif window manager, which has clear but classical appearance, (It) has clear appearance sounds like it's missing an article. (Classical? Now I'm

Re: DPN 02/2013 frozen. Please review and translate.

2013-01-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Filipus Klutiero wrote: Thank you Francesca and everyone. Here are my remarks: Ben Hutchings, member of the Debian Kernel team and maintainer of the 3.2.y stable series at kernel.org, wrote a series of three blogposts (a

Re: DPN 02/2013 frozen. Please review and translate.

2013-01-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Filipus Klutiero wrote: If we want to call the team as it calls itself, I'd suggest using the official capitalization (Debian Kernel Team), using quotes or using italics. The wiki page and so on are Debian Kernel, so I'm not convinced it needs caps on Team. Note also the reference in the

Re: Debian Kernel team (Re: DPN 02/2013 frozen. Please review and translate.)

2013-01-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Filipus Klutiero wrote: The wiki page and so on are Debian Kernel, so I'm not convinced it needs caps on Team. I'm not sure what you mean, but the DebianKernel page is at /Teams/DebianKernel. Calling it DebianKernelTeam would have put it at /Teams/DebianKernelTeam. Anyway, many pages on the

Re: Help Wanted: refine the description of Seafile

2013-02-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Shuai Lin wrote: I am a developer of seafile, an open source alternative to dropbox. For details of seafile, see the links [0], [1], [2]. Recently I am preparing the debian package of seafile client, and as I am not so good at English writing, I want help from someone here to refine the

Re: [RFR] Please check the DebConf12 final report

2013-02-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Moray Allan wrote: You can view the source files on the web at http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debconf-data/reports/dc12/ or svn checkout svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debconf-data and make changes directly. I don't have write access for svn, but here's a diff. -- JBR - and today's single

Re: [RFR] Please check the DebConf12 final report

2013-02-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting victory (victory@gmail.com): Index: video.tex -contributed to increase the quality of the recordings. +contributed to increasing the quality of the recordings. Or to quote the whole sentence, # Having dedicated equipment for the DebConf video team has

Re: webwml://debian-installer/errata

2013-02-17 Thread Justin B Rye
victory wrote: about this sentense (webwml://debian-installer/errata): the grub bootloader was installed onto the USB stick instead of the hard disc, where the rest of the system was installed. (Of course that's The Grub bootloader. Hard disc is also a misspelling; for no particularly

Re: Bug#702916: Package description: data bank or database?

2013-03-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: are you sure the package descriptions are what you intended to say? Package: biomaj Oh, yes - these and biomaj-watcher passed through d-l-e a year ago: https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2011/12/msg00036.html

Re: Fw: Re: Patch for consultants/info

2013-03-22 Thread Justin B Rye
as proposed by taffit: could you guys give me a proofread of attached patch please? Okay: Index: info.wml === RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/consultants/info.wml,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 info.wml ---

Re: Release notes

2013-03-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: today #703419 was filed. Perhaps somebody here is interested working on its subject: release-notes: need updating / finalizing for Wheezy. Okay, first things first: I still see things in the Wheezy Release Notes that I provided improved

Re: Bug#703950: Unfortunate short description

2013-03-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: I would like to suggest another wording for the package description. The current description is: Description: Gerber file viewer for PCB design gerbv is a utility for viewing Gerber RS-274X files, Excellon drill files, and CSV pick-and-place files. Gerber

Re: Release notes

2013-03-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: [...] There's also some bad advice in a couple of places that confuses two quite different senses of obsolete: leftover unnecessary libraries, and packages no longer in Debian. They need untangling. Still it seems nobody's interested. Would it help if I was more specific

Re: Release notes

2013-03-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Steve Langasek wrote: Going back to the aptitude non-olfactory mode nonsense, here's a patch for that. I'm standardising on full-console mode, given that nobody has suggested anything better. The reason no one has suggested anything better is that 'visual mode' is the *canonical name*

Re: Release notes

2013-03-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Daniel Hartwig wrote: I'm standardising on full-console mode, given that nobody has suggested anything better. The reason no one has suggested anything better is that 'visual mode' is the *canonical name* for running aptitude in this mode. Please don't have a proxy battle with the aptitude

Re: Release notes

2013-03-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Daniel Hartwig wrote: Justin B Rye justin.byam@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Hartwig wrote: Right, and I do not see how ‘visual mode’ is misleading? I've explained it already, but the reason it's not obvious to you is that you're not some slow-witted, ignorant newbie, and therefore don't

Re: Bug#704293: release-notes: drop explanation of how to find obsolete packages from dselect

2013-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Justin B Rye wrote: I should like to call your attention to the fact that this whole paragraph is just confused, and needs to be rewritten. I just looked over your patch[1]. It changes a different paragraph than the one I modified. Ah, I'm talking about 4.4.3

Re: Bug#704424: release-notes: sufficient-space hints give confusing advice

2013-04-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: [...] It seems to me we should put all our coverage of redundant packages in 4.4.3 (mentioning apt-get autoremove and avoiding the word obsolete), put all our coverage of relic packages in 4.9, and leave the two sections completely unconnected. Here's an attempt at a patch

Re: Bug#704424: release-notes: sufficient-space hints give confusing advice

2013-04-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Is it still true that deborphan is highly recommended, or is that a leftover from the days when it was the only tool that implemented any of this functionality? And does popcon-largest-unused still work? It thinks I don't use my web browser or window manager

Re: Description for debian/control ruby-subexec

2013-04-02 Thread Justin B Rye
tor...@riseup.net wrote: Description: Spawn a subprocess This is a (capitalised) verb phrase; those are common in man pages, but discouraged in package synopses. What you want is an (uncapitalised, articleless) noun phrase along the lines of Description: mechanism for spawning a subprocess

Re: Description for ruby-mini-magick

2013-04-04 Thread Justin B Rye
(First draft after getting in from a LUG meeting; I may have second thoughts in the morning.) tor...@riseup.net wrote: please help me with the description for the package ruby-mini-magick. Description: manipulation of images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick MiniMagick is a Ruby

Re: [Openstack-devel] Bug#704949: Bug#704949: cinder: [debconf_rewrite] Debconf templates and debian/control review proposal

2013-04-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Goirand wrote: [...] Description: OpenStack efficient metering counters system (Python libraries) That sounds a bit odd (is it a counters system or a counter system?), Well, it really is a system of working on having multiple counters that, together, does metering... I'm still not

Re: [Openstack-devel] Bug#704949: Bug#704949: cinder: [debconf_rewrite] Debconf templates and debian/control review proposal

2013-04-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Goirand wrote: On 04/09/2013 02:36 AM, Justin B Rye wrote: So what it's trying to say is that Cinder is a separate project from nova-volume, which it directly replaces? In the original it wasn't clear what it was that was separate; it still isn't entirely clear what it's saying it's

Re: Release notes

2013-04-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: This patch also tweaks section 2.1.3: The preferred program for interactive package management from a terminal is _aptitude_. For a non-interactive command line interface for package management, it is recommended to use _apt-get_. [...] Obviously, if I say apt

Re: Release notes

2013-04-12 Thread Justin B Rye
TL;DR: revised patch removes this paragraph. Daniel Hartwig wrote: Justin B Rye justin.byam@gmail.com wrote: The preferred program for interactive package management from a terminal is _aptitude_. For a non-interactive command line interface for package management, it is recommended

Re: [RFR] templates://sipml5/{sipml5-web-phone.templates}

2013-04-22 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: sipml5-web-phone/webserver Type: boolean Default: true -_Description: Automatically configure apache2? +_Description: Automatically configure Apache for Sipml5? [...]

Re: [RFR] templates://squid-deb-proxy/{squid-deb-proxy.templates}

2013-04-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. [...] Template: squid-deb-proxy/ppa-enable Type: boolean Default: false -_Description: Allow PPA (Personal Package Archive) access? - Squid-deb-proxy by default will not allow PPA repositories from launchpad.

Re: Bug#705794: [RFR] templates://squid-deb-proxy/{squid-deb-proxy.templates}

2013-04-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Vogt wrote: Template: squid-deb-proxy/ppa-enable Type: boolean Default: false -_Description: Allow PPA (Personal Package Archive) access? - Squid-deb-proxy by default will not allow PPA repositories from launchpad. - Selecting Y in this option will activate PPA repo access.

Re: Things to check in release notes

2013-04-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Bagge / brother wrote: in upgrading.po I found All OpenERP 5 packages have been removed and are obsolete. This includes systemitem role=\package\openerp-client/systemitem, systemitem role=\package\openerp-server/systemitem, systemitem role=\package\openerp-web/systemitem. Add a and

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