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Package: po-debconf
Version: 1.0.15
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
There's a glitch in the present-tense third-person-singular
agreement in po-debconf's long description:
# Description: manage translated Debconf templates files with gettext
# This package is an alternative to debconf-utils and provide tools
^s
# to manage translated Debconf templates files with common gettext
# utilities.
While I'm at it I'd also suggest a couple of other changes:
* That short description is technically a Verb Phrase; the DevRef
guidelines recommend a Noun Phrase (minus articles).
* To avoid confusion with DebConf, call the configurator "debconf".
* In what sense is po-debconf an alternative to debconf-utils?
Given that ucf Recommends debconf-utils, can I substitute
po-debconf and expect unchanged functionality? I don't
think so; it should instead claim to be a _replacement_ for
debconf-getlang. Or better yet, not mention long-deprecated
utilities at all.
* The short description is repeated almost verbatim in the long
description. Phrase it slightly differently, so that
keyword searches have two chances to find it and readers
have two chances to understand it.
I'd suggest:
Description: utilities for managing templates file translations with gettext
This package provides tools for adding standard gettext-based i18n
(internationalization) support to debconf templates files.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages po-debconf depends on:
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii perl 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages po-debconf recommends:
ii libcompress-zlib-perl 2.012-1 Perl module for creation and manip
ii libmail-box-perl 2.082-2 Manage a message-folder
ii libmail-sendmail-perl 0.79-5 Send email from a perl script
po-debconf suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
--- ../po-debconf.old/debian/control 2008-06-13 00:41:23.000000000 +0100
+++ debian/control 2008-12-09 14:21:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Architecture: all
Depends: perl, gettext (>= 0.16), intltool-debian (>= 0.34.2+20060512)
Recommends: libmail-sendmail-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl, libmail-box-perl
-Description: manage translated Debconf templates files with gettext
- This package is an alternative to debconf-utils and provide tools
- to manage translated Debconf templates files with common gettext
+Description: tool for managing templates file translations with gettext
+ This package is an alternative to debconf-utils, and provides tools
+ for managing translated debconf templates files with common gettext
utilities.
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Source: po-debconf
Source-Version: 1.0.16
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
po-debconf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
po-debconf_1.0.16.dsc
to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.16.dsc
po-debconf_1.0.16.tar.gz
to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.16.tar.gz
po-debconf_1.0.16_all.deb
to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.16_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[email protected]> (supplier of
updated po-debconf package)
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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:05:55 +0200
Source: po-debconf
Binary: po-debconf
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.0.16
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[email protected]>
Description:
po-debconf - tool for managing templates file translations with gettext
Closes: 495352 503086 503523 505393 508454 510485 513800 519868 519870
Changes:
po-debconf (1.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ packaging ]
* debian/control: Standards-Version bumped to 3.8.1. No changes.
* debian/compat: Bumped to 7.
* debian/rules: Replace dh_clean -k by dh_prep.
* debian/control: Updated build dependency on debhelper (>= 7.0.0).
.
[ debconf-updatepo ]
* Fix the support for --msgid-bugs-address. Thanks to Felix Zielcke.
Closes: #503523
.
[ podebconf-report-po ]
* Apply patches from 1.0.15ubuntu1
- Fix opportunistic import of Mail::Box::Manager, to avoid crashing with
an import error if libmail-box-perl is not installed. Now it actually
shows the "Please install libmail-box-perl" message, as the code intends
to. Thanks to Colin Watson for suggesting this fix!
- Drop libmail-box-perl to Suggests:. It is not needed for most users of
po-debconf, drags in lots of more packages, and with above fix the
failure mode of podebconf-report-po is adequate.
- Closes: #503086, #519868
* podebconf-report-po: If the postponed mailbox does not exist, create it.
Closes: #519870
.
[ documentation ]
* doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod: encourage __Choices instead of _Choices.
Closes: #495352
* doc/po4a/po/vi.po: Updated Vietnamese translation. Thanks to Clytie
Siddall. Closes: #513800
* doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod: document the debugging process. Thanks to James
R. Van Zandt. Closes: #505393
* debian/control: English fixes in the package description. Closes: #508454
* debian/control: Update build dependencies for po4a (>= 0.36) and
perl (>= 5.10) to get a proper support of UTF-8 manpages from POD
documents.
* doc/po4a/po/*.po, doc/po4a/add_*/translator.*: convert to UTF-8,
* doc/po4a/po-debconf.cfg: Generate all translated POD document in UTF-8.
* doc/Makefile: COnvert to UTF-8, use the -utf8 pod2man option.
Closes: #510485
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