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--- Begin Message ---Source: irssi-plugin-otr Version: 1.0.0-1+b2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The package descriptions for irssi-plugin-otr and irssi-plugin-otr-dbg have a number of trivial stylistic issues. > Package: irssi-plugin-otr [...] > Description: Off-the-Record Messaging Plugin for Irssi If the package was called ORMPI, this capitalisation would be appropriate. Since it isn't, there's no need to capitalise "Messaging" or "Plugin", though Irssi is entitled to a capital "I", and "Off the Record" can have capitalised "T" as well. > Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Plugin for the Irssi Chat Client Repeating the synopsis is pointless - just drop this. The first line of the next paragraph is repetitive enough as it is! > . > This plugin adds Off-the-Record messaging support for the irssi IRC client. ^ ^^^ ^ If we're dropping the previous iteration we can make that "Off-The-Record (OTR)" here. We should also capitalise Irssi, since we're talking about the "brand name" for the piece of software rather than the verbatim-string command or packagename. It would also make more sense to say either that it "provides" OTR support "for" Irssi or (as per my patch) that it "adds" OTR support "to" Irssi. > Although primarily designed for use with the bitlbee IRC2IM gateway, it works ^ ^ That's "BitlBee". > within any query window, provided that the conversation partner's IRC client > supports OTR. It's not clear whether you mean the IRC client of my conversation partner or the IRC clients of both conversation partners. I've just replaced "the" with "your". > . > OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing: > - Encryption > - No one else can read your instant messages. > - Authentication > - You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is. This scheme of split-level bullet-points seems unnecessarily fiddly - I've replaced it with something that matches the "debian-l10n-english house style", like this: * Encryption - no one else can read your instant messages. * Authentication - you are assured the correspondent is who you think it is. > - Deniability > - The messages you send do _not_ have digital signatures that are > checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after a > conversation to make them look like they came from you. However, > _during_ a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages > he sees are authentic and unmodified. The main reason I'm picking on this package description rather than all the other package descriptions out there with much worse English is that "your correspondent" is not necessarily male. You could make it "he or she", but the most natural-sounding solution is to make the correspondents plural (which, after all, they are). It's interesting to notice that the previous bulletpoint referred to "the correspondent" as an "it", which was perfectly idiomatic in that context, but won't work here. > - Perfect forward secrecy > - If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation > is compromised. > Package: irssi-plugin-otr-dbg [...] > Description: Off-the-Record Messaging Plugin for Irssi - debugging symbols > Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Plugin for the Irssi Chat Client > . > This plugin adds Off-the-Record messaging support for the irssi IRC client. > Although primarily designed for use with the bitlbee IRC2IM gateway, it works > within any query window, provided that the conversation partner's IRC client > supports OTR. > . > This package features debugging symbols for the plugin. No new problems here. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular packagediff -ru irssi-plugin-otr-1.0.0.pristine/debian/control irssi-plugin-otr-1.0.0/debian/control --- irssi-plugin-otr-1.0.0.pristine/debian/control 2014-02-22 17:07:13.000000000 +0000 +++ irssi-plugin-otr-1.0.0/debian/control 2015-05-21 15:50:15.735896334 +0100 @@ -20,28 +20,23 @@ ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Enhances: irssi -Description: Off-the-Record Messaging Plugin for Irssi - Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Plugin for the Irssi Chat Client - . - This plugin adds Off-the-Record messaging support for the irssi IRC client. - Although primarily designed for use with the bitlbee IRC2IM gateway, it works - within any query window, provided that the conversation partner's IRC client - supports OTR. +Description: Off-The-Record messaging plugin for Irssi + This plugin adds Off-The-Record (OTR) messaging support to the Irssi IRC + client. Although primarily designed for use with the BitlBee IRC2IM + gateway, it works within any query window, provided that your + conversation partner's IRC client supports OTR. . OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing: - - Encryption - - No one else can read your instant messages. - - Authentication - - You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is. - - Deniability - - The messages you send do _not_ have digital signatures that are - checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after a - conversation to make them look like they came from you. However, - _during_ a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages - he sees are authentic and unmodified. - - Perfect forward secrecy - - If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation - is compromised. + * Encryption - no one else can read your instant messages. + * Authentication - you are assured the correspondent is who you think + it is. + * Deniability - the messages you send do _not_ have digital signatures + that are checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after + a conversation to make them look like they came from you. However, + _during_ a conversation, correspondents are assured the messages + they see are authentic and unmodified. + * Perfect forward secrecy - if you lose control of your private keys, + no previous conversation is compromised. Package: irssi-plugin-otr-dbg Architecture: any @@ -49,12 +44,10 @@ Priority: extra Depends: irssi-plugin-otr (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends} -Description: Off-the-Record Messaging Plugin for Irssi - debugging symbols - Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Plugin for the Irssi Chat Client - . - This plugin adds Off-the-Record messaging support for the irssi IRC client. - Although primarily designed for use with the bitlbee IRC2IM gateway, it works - within any query window, provided that the conversation partner's IRC client - supports OTR. +Description: Off-The-Record messaging plugin for Irssi - debugging symbols + This plugin adds Off-The-Record (OTR) messaging support to the Irssi IRC + client. Although primarily designed for use with the BitlBee IRC2IM + gateway, it works within any query window, provided that your + conversation partner's IRC client supports OTR. . This package features debugging symbols for the plugin.
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--- Begin Message ---version: 1.0.0-2 Hi, this was fixed in git commits b018c3a7ac65972af084fb60f95ddda317750715 and c58654b220134d934a7600db37a0767903203f95 which were included in the 1.0.0-2 upload. -- cheers, Holger
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