Robert Millan wrote: > Package: gnome-app-install > Version: 0.5.2.5-1 > Severity: serious > Tags: patch > > User strings in this program seem to be spreading confusion about contrib > and non-free (and their relationship to Debian). In case of doubt, refer > to Social Contract #5: "The packages in these areas are not part of the > Debian system". By virtue of being a package installer shipped by Debian, > these strings have an assertive meaning (rather than merely descriptive) which > is in contradiction with the Social Contract. I'll disable the chooser and hardcode SHOW_ONLY_FREE. As there are only about 5 applications in contrib+non-free, which can be installed from g-a-i, this won't hurt.
Maybe I'll replace it with the desktop chooser: 'All Applications', 'GNOME
Applications', 'KDE Applications', 'XFCE Applications'. This makes more sense
than choosers for non-free or 3rd party software, which won't be available
anymore.
>
> Some examples:
>
> - "Show all Debian applications which can be freely used, modified and
> distributed." -- this implies there exist Debian applications which cannot
> be freely used, modified or distributed.
Simpy remove Debian from the text.
> - "[3rd party apps] are not part of Debian" -- by omission, this implies
> contrib & non-free are.
It's just a clarification.
> - "%s is part of the Debian main distribution" -- redundancy
>
> I'm attaching a patch that TTBOMK fixes all of them.
Some parts are good, but I won't use
> - _("%s is not part of the Debian main distribution"
> + _("%s is not part of the Debian distribution "
(contrib). Should be renamed to something else, to clarify that contrib and
non-free are supported.
> + SHOW_ONLY_FREE :(_("All Debian applications"),
I don't like the term "Debian applications", because it may be interpreted as
applications developed especially for Debian. I think I rename this and all
other occurrences of "Debian applications" or "open source *" to "free
software".
> - "vendors and are not part of Debian"))
> + "vendors"))
If prefer the first one, because it clarifies the situation of the package.
> - "component of Debian?"),
> + "distribution?"),
Well, distribution is a bit confusing. main, contrib, non-free are often
refered to as sections or components. distribution is more used for the
different suites.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-app-install depends on:
> ii app-install-data 0.4.20071030 Application Installer Data Files
> ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database
> syste
> ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su
> ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
> ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level
> object-o
> ii python-apt 0.7.5 Python interface to libapt-pkg
> ii python-central 0.6.1 register and build utility for
> Pyt
> ii python-dbus 0.82.4-2 simple interprocess messaging
> syst
> ii python-gdbm 2.4.4-3 GNU dbm database support for
> Pytho
> ii python-glade2 2.12.1-1 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
> ii python-gnome2 2.22.0-1 Python bindings for the GNOME
> desk
> ii python-gnome2-extras 2.14.3-1+b1 Python bindings for the GNOME
> desk
> ii python-gst0.10 0.10.11-1 generic media-playing framework
> (P
> ii python-gtk2 2.12.1-1 Python bindings for the GTK+
> widge
> ii python-sexy 0.1.9-1 python language bindings for
> libse
> ii python-xdg 0.15-1.1 A python library to access
> freedes
> ii synaptic 0.61+b1 Graphical package manager
>
> gnome-app-install recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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