Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the > short description for a debconf template is?
Well, you're not going to get a "serious" severity bug about it any time soon. However, debconf frontends are designed with strings of about this length in mind. They'll certianly not cause any horrible breakage, but you might even see a truncated string here and there. For example, the slang frontend truncates short descriptions if they overflow one line. > Should I just refuse the template and ask the translator to somehow shorten > the offending text, or use the template anyway? Dunno. How about asking the translator how they feel about being cut off in mid sentance. :-) -- see shy jo
