Re: [ITR] templates://dtc-xen/templates

2007-04-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Justin B Rye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is this version of dtc-xen/templates still up for review? Well, yes. The maintainer introduced many templates and most of them need a very solid review (just like the dtc templates were needing). Of course, what I usually

Re: [LCFC] templates://mediawiki1.7/{templates}

2007-04-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for mediawiki1.7. You know, I never meant to end up replying to every message on this list. Templates: OK. Control: both mediawiki1.7 and -math have: MediaWiki is a particular wiki engine (a

Re: draft of the release announcement; please review

2007-04-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Alexander Schmehl wrote: A draft is available at http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/release.txt Can you explain what's meant by (or point to another phrasing of) the final phrase here? This release introduces a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system supporting scripts

Re: draft of the release announcement; please review

2007-04-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Alexander Schmehl wrote: This release introduces a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system supporting scripts using composed characters and complex languages; (ie:) The graphical user interface supportes languages the textual user interface does not support, since they

Re: [RFR] templates://dtc-xen/{templates}

2007-04-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Please send reviews as unified diffs (diff -u) against the original files. Comments about your proposed changes will be appreciated. A couple of things in the the templates; again I'll inline a diff against the RFR and attach one against the original. Template:

Re: [RFR] templates://ocsinventory-agent/ocsinventory-agent.templates

2007-04-14 Thread Justin B Rye
James Westby wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates of mysql-dfsg-5.0. The templates I can't improve on; the control file on the other hand has a couple of obvious non-nativisms. Diffs and revised versions just for those attached; presumably other ocsinventory-* packages need the

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

2007-04-18 Thread Justin B Rye
Nicolas François wrote: Fabian Greffrath wrote: But I think it is common practice to indent the 'Homepage' line in debian/control by one more space character. Isn't it? Yes. It is specified in the Debian Developer's Reference:

Re: [LCFC] filelight's description

2007-04-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: - Allows you to exactly understand exactly your disk usage by - graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric - segmented-rings. + Filelight allows you to understand your disk usage by graphically + representing your filesystem as a set of

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

2007-04-21 Thread Justin B Rye
Kevin Coyner wrote: Christian Perrier wrote.. [reinstating some context I feel like pontificating about] I would personnally prefer multi-user if English uses the same conventions than French for such constructions of words (use a hyphen between two vowels but no hyphens between a vowel

Re: Please proofread debreaper debconf template

2007-04-22 Thread Justin B Rye
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:57:01AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Template: debreaper/use_viaticum Type: select _Choices: Only GNOME programs, All X sessions, The whole system Default: All X sessions _Description: Use debreaper for:

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

2007-04-22 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Template: postfix/main_mailer_type ... + Internet site: + Mmail is sent and received directly using SMTP. Oops! (E-)Mail, not M-mail. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [RFR] templates://jed-extra/{templates}

2007-04-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: ... Your templates patch looks good, but there's at least one other change I'd make to the control file. Package: jed-extra Architecture: all Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0 Recommends: jed (= 0.99.18) | xjed (= 0.99.18) Enhances: jed, xjed Suggests: slsh,

Re: [RFR2] templates://postfix/{templates}

2007-04-29 Thread Justin B Rye
A second round of niggles; only the last one is essential. Template: postfix/mydomain_warning ... Postfix version 2.3.3-2 and later require changes in main.cf. Specifically, mydomain must be specified, since hostname(2) is not a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). Specifically specified

Re: [RFR] templates://jed-extra/{templates}

2007-05-02 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Switched use of ; and , as this way it seems more natural or pretty to me. However, as I am not native to English, this is a suggestion that should be revised by a native speaker. Well, as far as I know, semi-colons should be used in enumerations. I'm absolutely

Re: Package descriptions for sigit and ipp2p

2007-05-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Rasmus Bøg Hansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sigit: Description: A small utility to change signatures randomly utility to change mail signatures randomly Yup... This small utility changes signatures in random order. This sounds as if you've got a list of

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

2007-05-10 Thread Justin B Rye
MJ Ray wrote: So xdm's template (and any others copied) still has two bugs: 1. this is not selecting which one runs by default is it? It seems like it's selecting which one is the first choice. The one that runs by default is the fall-back, the last choice, which I suspect is

Re: [RFR] templates://radiusd-livingston/{templates}

2007-05-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Kevin Coyner wrote: I took a few liberties in rewriting the control file. Looks good. I would suggest that the three config files - users, clients, proxy - be left intact with examples but commented out completely and copied to /etc/radiusd-livingston as part of the install. A new file

Re: [RFR] templates://foomatic-gui/{printconf.templates}

2007-05-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates of foomatic-gui. Just one extra change to the control file: Package: printconf ... Some low-end inkjet and laser printers that use proprietary languages (sometimes erroneously called WinPrinters or GDI printers) will

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

2007-05-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates of roundcube. I think you got everything, except: -Description: modern, skinnable, AJAX based webmail solution for IMAP servers +Description: skinnable, AJAX based, webmail solution for IMAP servers Excess comma after

Re: [RFR] templates://net-snmp/{snmpd.templates}

2007-05-13 Thread Justin B Rye
The main thing I notice is that it still talks about NET SNMP where its sourceforge page has Net-SNMP. Template: snmpd/upgradefrom521 ... The daemon is now started as user snmp, binds to localhost only and SMUX support is disabled. Or to keep the daemon the subject of each clause: and runs

Re: [RFR2] templates://radiusd-livingston/{templates}

2007-05-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Jens Seidel wrote: Kevin Coyner wrote: Some ISPs (commonly modem, DSL, or wireless 802.11 services) require you to enter a username and password in order to connect to the Internet. ISP stands for Internet Service Provider, right? A DSL service is not an ISP! I suppose calling an ISP a

Re: [RFR] templates://ucf/{templates.master}

2007-05-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates of ucf. This one doesn't need much work at all. Template: ucf/changeprompt ... + A new version of the ${FILE} configuration file is available, but the local + copy has been modified. I think that new version of

Re: [RFR] templates://alsa-driver/{alsa-source.templates,linux-sound-base.templates}

2007-05-16 Thread Justin B Rye
On Sun, May 06 I wrote (on debian-l10n-english): Christian Perrier wrote: Please find, for review, the debconf templates of alsa-driver. I've got some concerns with the control file, too - in summary: it doesn't suggest any reason why anyone would want to compile a custom alsa-modules

Re: [RFR] templates://davfs2/{templates}

2007-05-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Kevin Coyner wrote: Below please find changes to the RFR version with comments. So my diff is cumulative to everyone else's so far. Template: davfs2/group_name ... - _Description: Group for the users allowed to mount WebDAV resources: + _Description: Group for the users that will be

Re: [RFR] templates://davfs2/{templates}

2007-05-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: davfs2 is a Linux file system driver that allows mouting a WebDAV s/mout/mount/ again! resource as a regular file system, so that files in that resource can be edited using standard applications that interact with the file system (e.g. text editors). . It

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

2007-05-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Minor changes to one template: Template: squid/fix_cachedir_perms ... _Description: Fix permissions of cache_dir? The values for 'cache_effective_user' and/or 'cache_effective_group' in Squid's configuration

Re: [RFR] templates://exim4/{exim4-base.templates,exim4-config.templates}

2007-05-21 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Template: exim4/purge_spool ... _Description: Remove undelivered mails in spool directory? There are mails in the exim spool directory /var/spool/exim4/input which Call that the Exim spool directory. have not yet been delivered. Removing Exim will cause them to

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

2007-05-21 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Incorporating previous reviews. Template: avelsieve/runconfig ... _Description: Activate avelsieve automatically after installation? Except that it happens now, not as a separate stage subsequent to dpkg --install

Re: [Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: hinting-viewer - tool to view font outline hinting

2007-05-21 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Nicolas Spalinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... * Description : tool to view font outline hinting ... A GTK+, Cairo-based tool to look in detail at how the FreeType hinting process is affecting the outlines of a font. It allows looking at a magnified version

Re: [RFR] Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-05-21 Thread Justin B Rye
MJ Ray wrote: Main changes: This catches everything I'd seen, except: -pDebian users can automatically submit information about the installed -packages voluntarily (and anonymously). While the main purpose to -collect these information is to optimize DVD contents, prioritize -translation

Re: [RFR] templates://gnunet/{gnunet-daemon.templates}

2007-05-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: _Description: Should the GNUnet daemon be launched at the system's startup? Simpler (or shorter, anyway): launched on boot I left this out of the patch. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) --- ../gnunet.old/debian/gnunet-daemon.templates2007-05-15 18:47

Re: [RFR] templates://gnunet/{gnunet-daemon.templates}

2007-05-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: It is recommended that you use a dedicated group to run GNUnet, and check that this group does not already own any data. I'd prefer avoiding the that you use and keep that sort of sentences neutral (yes, as usual ;-)). If It is recommended to use... is not great,

Re: [RFR2] templates://gnunet/{gnunet-daemon.templates}

2007-05-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Template: gnunet-daemon/gnunet_user ... _Description: GNUnet user: Please choose the user that he the GNUnet daemon process will run as. ^^^ Typo. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [RFR] templates://krb5/{krb5-admin-server.templates,krb5-kdc.templates}

2007-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. No control-file changes, just some for the templates. Template: krb5-admin-server/newrealm ... _Description: Setting up a Kerberos Realm This package contains the administrative tools necessary to run on the

Re: [LCFC] templates://ucf/{templates.master}

2007-05-26 Thread Justin B Rye
MJ Ray wrote: The following should say currently-installed, not currently installed: Template: ucf/changeprompt_threeway Template: ucf/changeprompt To me that looks okay, but I suspect it's because I'm another en_GB-speaker. All the style references I can find that mention the issue (such as

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

2007-05-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Kevin Coyner wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Only two points: Template: mantis/admin ... _Description: Mantis administrator e-mail address: Users will be prompted to send an e-mail to this address when an error occurs that requires the intervention of a system

Re: [TAF] templates://smstools/{templates}

2007-05-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Sorry about the lack of diffs. Template: smstools/configure ... _Description: Manage smsd configuration with debconf? Users shouldn't need to know what debconf is, so the question should be something like: _Description: Manage smsd configuration automatically? Reject this option if you

Re: [RFR] templates://common-lisp-controller/{templates}

2007-05-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Canonicalising the capitalisation of Common Lisp throughout. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) --- ../common-lisp-controller.old/debian/templates 2007-04-25 05:23:01.0 +0100 +++

Re: [LCFC] templates://exim4/{exim4-base.templates,exim4-config.templates}

2007-05-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for exim4. Did you see http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2007/05/msg00134.html;? -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [RFR] Description of new memchan package

2007-05-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Sergei Golovan wrote: I'm preparing new memchan package for uploading to Debian distribution and asking someone to review its description. Okay. Diff and revised version of the text attached. Package: memchan Section: libs I should start by saying that I'm not a Tcl programmer; in fact I

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

2007-05-31 Thread Justin B Rye
MJ Ray wrote: e.g. should be replaced with for example - English instead of a Latin abbreviation. Not a policy I would have thought to enforce, but for e.g. and i.e. it's worth bearing in mind. In this particular case: However, please note that if you specified a cache directory

Re: [RFR] templates://gnome-applets/{gnome-applets.templates}

2007-05-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Okay. Template: gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit ... _Description: Should cpufreq-selector use root privileges when running? sarcasmNo, only when not running!/sarcasm _Description: Should cpufreq-selector run

Re: [RFR] templates://gnome-applets/{gnome-applets.templates}

2007-06-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: If in doubt, you should not choose this option. Make it obvious that laziness is safe: If in doubt, accept the default of 'no'. yellNO/yell. Thou Shalt not make reference to interface widgets in debconf translations. No is one. Not all debconf interfaces

Re: [RFR] templates://ion3/{ion3.templates}

2007-06-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. General note: the templates may seem to be debconf abuse but this has been discussed with Ben Hutchings, the maintainer, and we concluded that, given the very clumsy license of the upstream software, they're

Re: [RFR] templates://microcode.ctl/{templates}

2007-06-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Template: microcode.ctl/check-new ... These microcodes are non-free software and cannot distributed ^be within the package. They can be downloaded from the

Re: [RFR] templates://slbackup-php/{templates}

2007-06-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. One comment on the template, but not one that leads to a new change: Template: slbackup-php/use-ssl Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Activate SSL support in slbackup-php? Please note that SSL is

Re: Bug#426491: ucf: [debconf_rewrite] Debconf templates review

2007-06-04 Thread Justin B Rye
_Description: What would you like to do about ${BASENAME}? Action for ${BASENAME}:. The main point was not turning the prompt into neutral wording but *first* avoiding the interrogative form. How about What to do with ${BASENAME}: as a compromise? (Posted to d-l-e only, to see if anyone

Re: I got a bug report -- td2planet #428061

2007-06-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Yukiharu Yabuki wrote: [extra context:] Enrico Zini wrote: From the description it looks like td2planet is a reimplementation of Ruby, instead of a planet implemented in ruby. He's right; you can say an implementation in Ruby or a Ruby implementation, but an implementation of Ruby

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

2007-06-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Just one suggestion for the control file: Package: watchdog ... Description: software watchdog The watchdog program writes to /dev/watchdog every ten seconds. If the device is opened but not written to within a

Re: [RFR] Description and manpage of rsstail

2007-06-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Rene Mayorga wrote: Hi! I'm preparing a package for 'rsstail', this would be the first upload for this package. I'll be happy if someone can review the description and the manpage[0]. Okay. Patch attached. Package: rsstail ... Description: console RSS reader that monitors a feed and

Re: [RFR] Description and manpage of rsstail

2007-06-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: Parse a RSS feed and read it, in an output similar to the tail command. Parse an RSS feed and read it, giving output similar to the tail command. Oops, I corrected the a to an here, but missed it in the patch on the troff source. Fixed version: --- rsstail.1.old

Re: I got a bug report -- td2planet #428061

2007-06-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Yukiharu Yabuki wrote: Description: Ruby-based server-side blog aggregator This package is a server-side blog aggregator (commonly called a 'planet' server software) which is well-suited for aggregating tDiary-based blogs. See /usr/share/doc/td2planet/README. A [...] software is wrong (see

Re: [LCFC] templates://gnome-applets/{gnome-applets.templates}

2007-06-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for gnome-applets. One line hasn't quite patched right: Template: gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit ... _Description: Should cpufreq-selector run with root privileges? The 'cpufreq-selector'

Re: [RFR] templates://man-db/{templates.master}

2007-06-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. The only (repeated) point worth fixing is: Template: man-db/build-database and Template: man-db/rebuild-database ... If you do not build the database now, it will be built the next time /etc/cron.weekly/mandb

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

2007-06-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. +_Description: Do you want system-wide readable home directories? + By default, the users' home directories are readable by all users on + the system. If you want to increase the security and privacy on the +

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

2007-06-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Template: smstools/eventhandler ... _Description: Global event-handler: Please specify an external program or script that will execute, whenever a message was sent, received or failed. This would be short for will execute whenever a message was sent, or a message

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

2007-06-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: 15c15 Description: Add and remove users and groups --- Description: add and remove users and groups Oops! Wrong sort of diff. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) --- ../adduser.old/debian/templates 2007-01-19 07:15:08.0 + +++ debian/templates

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

2007-06-11 Thread Justin B Rye
James Westby wrote: On (11/06/07 12:44), Justin B Rye wrote: By default, the daemon provides a 'selection' mode, so that cut-and-paste with the mouse works on the console just as it does under X. Just a query, cut-and-paste sticks out to me, is everybody happy with it? I can't think

Re: [RFR2] templates://adduser/{templates}

2007-06-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: I feel that it coul dbe good to send the corrected versions of both the templates and control files after changing what you guys suggested. Package: adduser ... Adding users with adduser is much easier than adding them manually. Adduser will choose appropriate UID

Re: Who's at Debconf

2007-06-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Apart from MJ, who I still have to say Hi to and make him discover that my spoken English is even worse than my written one, who among the dle people is actually at Debconf? I'm a central Edinburgh resident, but I won't be able to make it down the road to the Teviot

Re: [RFR] templates://console-common/{templates.in}

2007-06-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. + The keymap configuration tool has been setup not to touch an existing + keymap. The noun is a setup, the verb is to set up. - However, you have file(s) that were recognized as boot-time keymaps by - older

Re: [RFR2] templates://console-common/{templates.in}

2007-06-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: I also entirely revamped the first template as an attempt to make it fit in a single screen (this is probably not still enough: shortening it by at least 2 lines would be good). I think I can do three, but extra input would be welcome. Template:

Re: [RFR] templates://dibbler/{dibbler-client.templates,dibbler-relay.templates,dibbler-server.templates}

2007-06-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Nothing very major: Template: dibbler-client/start ... The Dibbler client can be configured to be launched when the system is started. If you choose this option, this host will have a correct IPv6 setup after

Re: [RFR] templates://norwegian/{wnorwegian.templates.in,inorwegian.templates. in,aspell-no.templates}

2007-06-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Your UTF-8 attachments seem to have converted to Latin-1... let's see if mine do too. Template: wnorwegian/whichvariant Norwegian has two different written forms, namely bokmaal and nynorsk. Template:

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

2007-07-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for myphpmoney. On looking at this again I've noticed a couple of things in the templates that I should have spotted the first time round. Template: myphpmoney/mysql_user ... _Description: MySQL

Re: [RFR] templates://zope-common/{templates}

2007-07-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. (Incorporating some material from Kevin.) + Zope offers an extensible, modular structure that allows for an + easy addition of extra components (products) or features. Each product or feature + is usually

Re: [LCFC] templates://ca-certificates/{templates}

2007-07-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for ca-certificates. Template: ca-certificates/trust_new_crts ... - yes: new CA certificates will be trusted and installed; - no : new CA certificates will not be installed by default; -

Re: [RFR] templates://ltsp/{ltsp-client-builder.templates,ltsp-client-core.tem plates}

2007-07-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Template: ltsp-client/abort-installation ... - ltsp-client cannot be installed in a regular machine. This package provides - the basic structure for a LTSP terminal. + The ltsp-client package cannot be installed

Re: [LCFC] templates://libpaper/{libpaper1.templates}

2007-07-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for libpaper. Package: libpaper1 Description: library for handling paper characteristics ^ Package: libpaper-utils Description: Library for handling paper characteristics

Re: [LCFC] templates://ltsp/{ltsp-client-builder.templates,ltsp-client-core.tem plates}

2007-07-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Package: ldm ... Description: LTSP display manager ldm is an X11 display manager similar to xdm, gdm and kdm, but unlike those it wraps the X11 traffic within an SSH tunnel to provide a secure login mechanism for remote X sessions. ldm provides access only

Re: Help writing a News entry for stunnel

2007-07-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: I'm adopting stunnel, and updating it to version 4. Since this is a big change, I want to add a News.Debian entry, and would like to make sure it's clear. Would someone please proofread the following? Bonus nitpick: NEWS.Debian! Thanks in advance, and please

improving DevRef 6.2.2

2007-08-07 Thread Justin B Rye
I'm thinking of submitting a bugreport against Developers-Reference section 6.2.2, and would appreciate any input from d-l-e readers, what with there being nothing else going on here at present. DevRef 6.2.2: # The synopsis line (the short description) should be concise. It # must not repeat the

Re: Description of pyvnc2swf

2007-08-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Vincent Bernat wrote: I did change the short description to: screen recording tool to SWF movie I hope this is OK since pyvnc2swf is already in the NEW queue. Otherwise, I will change it for the next upload. A change would be good, since that doesn't quite make sense. Hamish's suggestion

Re: Request for English debconf template review

2007-08-29 Thread Justin B Rye
MJ Ray wrote: Here's my attempt. Hope I didn't declare too much as non-key. I also saved a bit of space by removing a redundant modules then lost it again by expanding PAM on first use... I've only got a couple of suggested further tweaks: --- libpam0g.templates.orig 2007-08-29

Re: Request for English debconf template review

2007-08-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Too long debconf templates raise a few concerns for me: Well, I tried again, incorporating a couple of your comments and merging the first two paragraphs. This may be taking it too far. --- libpam0g.templates.orig 2007-08-29 22:14:58.0 +0100 +++

Re: [RFR] templates://xorg-server/{xprint-common.templates}

2007-09-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Description: Next Generation Nested X Server Why all the caps? X, fair enough, and Next Generation is arguable, but since there's no such thing as an NGNXS I suggest: Description: next generation nested X

Re: improving DevRef 6.2.2

2007-09-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Second draft: - Policy says that the synopsis line (the short description) needs to be informative but concise, and must not repeat the package's name. The synopsis functions as an appositive phrase describing the package.

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

2007-09-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. One reversion and a minor grammar-fix. - Portmap by default listens to all IP addresses. However, if you are - not providing network RPC services to remote clients (you are if you are - setting up a NFS or NIS

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

2007-09-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. _Description: Should nasd release /dev/dsp? - The NAS server will by default open the audio device configured on your + The NAS server will by default open the audio device configured on the system at startup,

Re: [RFR] templates://lirc/{lirc-modules-source.templates,lirc.templates}

2007-09-07 Thread Justin B Rye
MJ Ray wrote: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please send reviews as unified diffs (diff -u) against the original files. Comments about your proposed changes will be appreciated. The original files don't seem to be attached. Did you mean your modified files? No, the originals

Re: [RFR] templates://heimdal/{heimdal-kdc.templates}

2007-09-08 Thread Justin B Rye
+ Please enter the name of the local Kerberos realm. + . + Using the uppercase domain name is common. For instance, if the host + name is host.org.com, then the realm will become ORG.COM. The default + for this host is ${default_realm}. org.com really exists! Use the standard example:

Re: [RFR] templates://openslp/{libslp1.templates}

2007-09-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: + There seem to be no multicast route configured. OpenSLP can take + advantage of multicast packets and reduce traffic on the network. You can setup a multicast route automatically on system startup by adding the The verb is set up (c.f. start up/startup). +

Re: [RFR] templates://openslp/{libslp1.templates}

2007-09-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: + OpenSLP implementation; it contains an Introduction to SLP, a User's + Guide, a Programmer's Guide and related RFCs. (In fact the titles of the docs themselves are apostropheless: Users Guide, Programmers Guide. But let's stick to possessive singular.) Well, if

Re: [RFR] templates://wacom-tools/{wacom-kernel-source.templates,wacom.po-temp lates}

2007-09-11 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. + A kernel-headers-* package fitting the currently running kernel + needs to be installed. Alternatively, a suitably configured kernel + source tree may replace it. Do not choose this option if none of these + are

Re: [RFR] templates://no-ip/{templates}

2007-09-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. +_Description: noip2 package configuration + The noip2 package uses a configuration data file named + /etc/noip2.conf. Further questions are meant to fill in settigns in that file. One typo in the templates

Re: [RFR] templates://wacom-tools/{wacom-kernel-source.templates,wacom.po-temp lates}

2007-09-12 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: (But what does suitably configured actually mean? Is it talking about an unpacked kernel source tree with an appropriate .config?) I think this probably means that make config should have been run in that kernel tree. This is a use of the word configured that

Re: [RFR] templates://cyrus-sasl2/{sasl2-bin.templates}

2007-09-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Apologies for any oddities - my ISP's POP3 servers are broken today. Cyrus SASL has stored usernames and passwords in the database file /etc/sasldb2. That file has to be upgraded to a newer database format. Before doing that, the

Re: [LCFC] templates://lirc/{lirc-modules-source.templates,lirc.templates}

2007-09-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for lirc. Package: liblircclient-dev [...] Description: infra-red remote control support for Linux - client library development files 78 characters of synopsis is legal by Policy 3.4.1, but only

Re: [LCFC] templates://no-ip/{templates}

2007-09-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Package: noip2 [...] When configured correctly, the client will check the local IP address at a given time interval. If it has changed, the client will notify the NO-IP.com DNS servers and update the IP address for your No No-IP/No-IP+ host name.

Re: [RFR] templates://ssl-cert/{templates}

2007-09-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. I've got no complaints about the control file. Template: make-ssl-cert/statename Type: string _DefaultChoice: Some-State _Description: State or province name: Please enter the name of the country's subdivision

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

2007-09-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. I'm adopting MJ's suggestions throughout. Avoid corner cases which sounds like spoken language to me (I may be wrong) (Used accurately it's a piece of technical jargon from engineering; here it was a slightly

Re: [RFR] templates://ssl-cert/{templates}

2007-09-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Country's subdivision doesn't work. I'd suggest political subdivision. Hmmm, I'd prefer Administrative subdivision as such things aren't really political. They're political(ly determined) rather than objective geographical units, but yes, administrative is better.

Re: [RFR] templates://uw-imap/{ipopd.templates,uw-imapd.templates}

2007-09-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Looks good to me, except for: [...] - The UW IMAP toolkit provides the c-client mail-handling library - supporting various network transport methods, filesystem storage - formats, and authentication and

Re: [RFR] templates://gforge/{gforge-common.templates.dsfh-in,gforge-db-postgr esql.templates.dsfh-in,gforge-dns-bind9.templates.dsfh-in,gforge-mta -postfix.templates.dsfh-in,dsf-helper/common-variabl

2007-09-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. That'll be a while yet. But meanwhile: Package: gforge-mta-courier Architecture: all Depends: gforge-common, gforge-db-postgresql | gforge-db, perl, debianutils (= 1.7),

Re: [RFR] templates://gforge/{gforge-common.templates.dsfh-in,gforge-db-postgr esql.templates.dsfh-in,gforge-dns-bind9.templates.dsfh-in,gforge-mta -postfix.templates.dsfh-in,dsf-helper/common-variabl

2007-09-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Next question: Template: gforge/migrate_from_sourceforge Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Migrate to Gforge? The free software version of the Sourceforge software has been renamed to Gforge. Accordingly, the package has been renamed to gforge, and sourceforge is no longer

Re: [LCFC] templates://ssl-cert/{templates}

2007-10-04 Thread Justin B Rye
It will become the 'organisationName' field of the generated SSL certificate. [...] It will become the 'organisationalUnitName' field of the generated SSL certificate. These cases of isation in amongst the uses of ization are irritating. The package's ssleay.cnf has [

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

2007-10-05 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Template: mplayer/rtc Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Enable access to RTC? + On older kernels, MPlayer can use the RTC (Real Time Clock) to provide + better timing in reproduction, with less

Re: [RFR] templates://openldap2.3/{slapd.templates}

2007-10-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Incorporating all (I think) of the changes that have been proposed so far. _Description: Dump databases to file on upgrade: [...] + Before upgrading to a new version of the OpenLDAP server, the data of + the LDAP

Re: [RFR] templates://silc-server/{templates}

2007-10-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Package: silcd SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a network protocol designed - to provide end-to-end security for conferencing services. SILC has a + to provide end-to-end security for conferencing services. SILC provides a Better? But introduces a

Re: [RFR] templates://ppp/{ppp-udeb.templates}

2007-10-06 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. I thought I'd caught up, but I was still one behind. Well, I've adopted everything you had, but also: - The configuration of PPPoE is aborted. It can be attempted again by + The configuration of PPPoE has been

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