Package: approx Version: N/A Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Debian maintainer,
On Wednesday, March 18, 2009, I notified you of the beginning of a review process concerning debconf templates for approx. 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 approx with these changes right now. The second phase of this process will begin on Wednesday, April 08, 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 Wednesday, April 29, 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 Thursday, April 30, 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 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') 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
--- approx.old/debian/approx.templates 2009-03-13 20:21:57.121276766 +0100 +++ approx/debian/approx.templates 2009-04-05 17:10:07.671985737 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english +# team +# +# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask +# [email protected] for advice. +# +# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such +# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers. + Template: approx/port Type: string Default: 9999 --- approx.old/debian/control 2009-03-13 20:21:57.121276766 +0100 +++ approx/debian/control 2009-04-02 08:17:19.256962830 +0200 @@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ Package: approx Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${F:OCamlDeps}, lsb-base (>= 3.2), adduser, bzip2, curl, openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver, update-inetd -Description: caching proxy server for Debian archive files - Approx is an HTTP-based Debian archive server. - It fetches packages from remote repositories on demand, - and caches them for local use. +Description: caching proxy server for software repositories + Approx is an HTTP-based proxy server for Debian-style package archives. + It fetches files from remote repositories on demand, and caches them + for local use. . Approx saves time and network bandwidth if you need to install or - upgrade Debian software for a number of machines on a local network. + upgrade software for a number of machines on a local network. Each package is downloaded from a remote site only once, regardless of how many local clients install it. - The approx cache typically requires a few gigabytes of disk space. + The Approx cache typically requires a few gigabytes of disk space. . Approx also simplifies the administration of client machines: - repository locations need only be changed in approx's configuration file, + repository locations need only be changed in Approx's configuration file, not in every client's /etc/apt/sources.list file. . Approx can be used as a replacement for apt-proxy,
