Package: dictd
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Debian maintainer,
On Sunday, March 15, 2009, I notified you of the beginning of a review process
concerning debconf templates for dictd.
The debian-l10n-english contributors have now reviewed these templates,
and the proposed changes are attached to this bug report.
Please review the suggested changes, and if you have any
objections, let me know in the next 3 days.
However, please try to avoid uploading dictd with these changes
right now.
The second phase of this process will begin on Sunday, April 05, 2009, when I
will
coordinate updates to translations of debconf templates.
The existing translators will be notified of the changes: they will
receive an updated PO file for their language.
Simultaneously, a general call for new translations will be sent to
the debian-i18n mailing list.
Both these calls for translations will request updates to be sent as
individual bug reports. That will probably trigger a lot of bug
reports against your package, but these should be easier to deal with.
The call for translation updates and new translations will run until
about Sunday, April 26, 2009. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or
changed
debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of
course, other changes are safe.
Please note that this is an approximative delay, which depends on my
own availability to process this work and is influenced by the fact
that I simultaneously work on many packages.
Around Monday, April 27, 2009, I will contact you again and will send a final
patch
summarizing all the updates (changes to debconf templates,
updates to debconf translations and new debconf translations).
Again, thanks for your attention and cooperation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- dictd.old/debian/dictd.templates 2009-03-11 09:14:14.179576696 +0100
+++ dictd/debian/dictd.templates 2009-04-02 08:17:39.085684300 +0200
@@ -1,9 +1,18 @@
+# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
+# team
+#
+# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
+# debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org for advice.
+#
+# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
+# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
+
Template: dictd/run_mode
Type: select
__Choices: daemon, inetd, disabled
Default: daemon
-_Description: How do you want to run dictd?
+_Description: Method for running dictd:
The dictd server can be run either as a stand-alone daemon or from inetd. You
can also
disable it entirely.
.
- Running in the daemon mode is the recommended approach.
+ It is recommended to run it as a daemon.
--- dictd.old/debian/control 2009-03-11 09:14:14.195576236 +0100
+++ dictd/debian/control 2009-03-30 07:08:18.944153152 +0200
@@ -8,23 +8,21 @@
Package: dictd
Architecture: any
-Description: Dictionary Server
- dictd is a TCP based server that allows a client to access dictionary
+Description: dictionary server
+ This package provides a TCP-based server that allows a client to access
dictionary
definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
.
- Many dictionary databases have been packaged for Debian. They are
- discussed in more detail in the file
- /usr/share/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz
+ Many dictionary databases have been packaged for use with dictd. They are
+ described in the /usr/share/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz file.
.
Either dict-gcide or dict-wn is essential for a useful English
language dictionary server. It is strongly recommended that both be
installed. If you are interested in computer terminology, it is
- recommended that one or more of dict-jargon, dict-foldoc, and
- dict-vera also be installed.
+ recommended to install at least dict-jargon, dict-foldoc, or
+ dict-vera.
.
- The client program, dict, is packaged in dict*.deb If you are
- running a server, you will want the client for all machines in your
- network, and for testing server operations.
+ The client program, dict, is packaged separately and is needed on all
+ machines that will use the server.
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, netbase, adduser, dictzip (>=
${source:Upstream-Version}), lsb-base (>= 3.1), ucf (>= 3), update-inetd
Recommends: dict | dict-client
Suggests: dict-gcide | dictd-dictionary, dict-wn, dict-jargon, dict-foldoc
@@ -33,22 +31,22 @@
Package: dict
Architecture: any
-Description: Dictionary Client
- dict is the client that queries the dictd server. Since it is TCP
- based, it can access servers on the local host, on a local network,
- or on the Internet.
+Description: dictionary client
+ This package provides a client application to query a dictd server.
+ The client-server protocol is TCP-based; the server may then be local or
+ accessed through the network.
.
The DICT Development Group maintains several public servers which can
be accessed from any machine connected to the Internet. The default
- configuration is to query one of these servers first, but this may be
+ configuration is to query one of these servers first. This may be
changed in the configuration file /etc/dictd/dict.conf.
.
Queries may be customized by numerous command line options, including
specifying the database(s) to be queried and the search strategy to
be used.
.
- dict includes dictl, which simplifies using utf-8 encoded dictionaries
- with terminals that do not support utf-8.
+ This package also provides dictl, which allows using UTF-8 encoded
dictionaries
+ with terminals that do not support UTF-8.
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, netbase, recode
Recommends: m4, gawk
Suggests: dictd | dict-server
@@ -56,25 +54,25 @@
Package: dictzip
Architecture: any
-Description: Compression utility for dictionary databases
- dictzip compresses files using the gzip(1) algorithm (LZ77) in a
- manner which is completely compatible with the gzip file format. An
- extension to the gzip file format allows for random access to chunks
- of about 57kb without the overhead of decompressing the entire file.
+Description: compression utility for dictionary databases
+ This package provides a utility to compress dictionary databases with the
+ LZ77 algorithm in a manner which is completely compatible with gzip(1),
+ but using an extension that allows for random access to chunks
+ of about 57kB without the overhead of decompressing the entire file.
.
- This package also includes dictunzip to decompress dictzipped files
- and dictzcat for viewing dictzipped files.
+ This package also includes dictunzip, to decompress dictzipped files,
+ and dictzcat, for viewing dictzipped files.
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Replaces: dictd (<< 1.7.1-1)
Package: dictfmt
Section: utils
Architecture: any
-Description: Utility to format a file for use by the dictd server
- dictfmt converts an input file to a dictionary database that conforms
- to the DICT protocol, and creates a corresponding index file.
+Description: utility to format a file for use by a dictd server
+ This package provides dictfmt. This utility can convert an input file to a
dictionary database that conforms
+ to the DICT protocol, and create a corresponding index file.
.
- This package also includes dictunformat which creates a raw database
- from dictionary index and a dictionary database.
+ The package also provides dictunformat, which creates a raw database
+ from a dictionary index and a dictionary database.
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, gawk
Recommends: dictzip
