Hello Jo, thank you for your ultra-fast reply! On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:01:01PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 19:19 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Secondly some paragraphis differ only by programm names. It would be > > quite helpful for translations (especially if those names change in > > the future again) if these could become variables and thus would be > > listed in the po file only once. > > I have never used variables in debconf before - if you can give me a > good example, then I'll happily change it.
I'm sorry, I've seen them in templates but never used them myself. I
suggest you ask on an appropriate list, e.g. debian-mentors.
> > Additionally the German translation community felt that some
> > paragraphs are hard to understand, so you might consider going for a
> > review on debian-l10n-english, aka SMITH.
>
> This one confuses me a little - I asked for an informal review by
> members of the #debian-uk, and nobody raised any issues.
For example the following paragraph:
"The Debian version of mono-apache-server4 includes a mono-server4-update "
"script that creates a configuration file for apache to start the ASP.NET "
"applications, and mono-server4-update can restart apache if there's a new "
"configuration file (/etc/mono-server4/mono-server-hosts.conf). If this is "
"true, then Apache will be restarted when there is a new mono-server4-hosts."
"conf file."
The first sentence is very long and it's hard to track:
There is a script which creates a file for apache to do something.
This script can also restart Apache -- when there is a new
configuration file.
First the script writes a configuration file (so it is new)
but then a restart happens only if a new configuration file is
present?
Then the second sentence starts with "If this is true". Here it is not
obvious what "this" referes to. Also it is not clear, why now the
restart is an option, because the first sentence claims it will be
done if there is a new version of the configuration file.
I'm not sure I'm expressing myself good enough, but I hope you get the
idea, especially for non-native speakers.
Thanks!
Greetings
Helge
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