On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:53:40AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
[...]
> Everything should now be ok with the current CVS version. However, it
> requires some tests and no new version is planned to be released until
> I fix the RPM support (however, I plan to do that before the end of the
> month).
> 
> Please, feel free to comment the updated template file
> <http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/pdbv/pdbv.perl/debian/templates?rev=1.8&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>

If you want feedback, you should send a copy to the bug submitter ;)

Here are few comments; if you want proofreading by native English
speakers, you can ask for help on debian-l10n-english.
  
]  @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
]   Template: pdbv/listing
]   Type: select
]  -_Default: all
]  +Default: all

The default value does not depend on current locale.

]  @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
]   Type: boolean
]   Default: false
]   Description: Do you want to activate the lighter output generation option?
]  - .

Remove spurious empty paragraph.

]  @@ -39,12 +38,10 @@
]   
]   Template: pdbv/cron_lang
]   Type: string
]  -_Default: no
]   _Description: Forced locale.
]    Sometimes, cron fails to identify the appropriate LC and LANG settings.
]  - You can force the use of a specific locale by choosing anything else
]  - than the default "no" value. For instance, choose fr_FR for forcing
]  - the use of a french locale
]  + You can force the use of a specific locale by entering a value.  For
]  + instance, choose fr_FR to use a french locale.

Such default values are insane, letting entry blank is much more
user-friendly.  Moreover as this tag could be translated, return
value won't be "no" and your script will fail.
Of course you have to modify your postinst when applying this change.

]   Template: pdbv/sleep
]   Type: boolean
]  @@ -65,5 +62,5 @@
]    This option allows pdbv to skip tests and always regenerate the whole 
output.
]    .
]    Unless you have a particular reason to change this behavior, you should
]  - let this setting as it is.
]  + regenerate the whole output.

This does not make sense; if for any reason user selected false the
first time, he is encouraged to keep it as is.

Other files look ok.  Please ping Michel before a new release so that he
can update his translation.

Denis
--- templates.orig      2003-11-14 08:56:44.000000000 +0100
+++ templates   2003-11-14 09:00:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Template: pdbv/listing
 Type: select
-_Default: all
+Default: all
 _Choices: all, basic 
 _Description: Listing type
  Which type of listing should be generated?
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 Type: boolean
 Default: false
 Description: Do you want to activate the lighter output generation option?
- .
  If you activate it, pdbv will run faster but the output will be
  way less polished.
  .
@@ -39,12 +38,10 @@
 
 Template: pdbv/cron_lang
 Type: string
-_Default: no
 _Description: Forced locale.
  Sometimes, cron fails to identify the appropriate LC and LANG settings.
- You can force the use of a specific locale by choosing anything else
- than the default "no" value. For instance, choose fr_FR for forcing
- the use of a french locale
+ You can force the use of a specific locale by entering a value.  For
+ instance, choose fr_FR to use a french locale.
 
 Template: pdbv/sleep
 Type: boolean
@@ -65,5 +62,5 @@
  This option allows pdbv to skip tests and always regenerate the whole output.
  .
  Unless you have a particular reason to change this behavior, you should
- let this setting as it is.
+ regenerate the whole output.
 

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