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--- Begin Message ---Package: module-assistant Version: 0.11.4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The package description for m-a has several minor language problems and one significant gap in its content. > Package: module-assistant > Architecture: all As an aside: this would be fair enough if it was possible to use m-a to build modules for non-Linux kernels, or just maintain Linux VMs on non-Linux hosts (#602392), but unless there are plans to add such functionality wouldn't it make sense to update this to linux-any? [...] > Description: tool to make module package creation easier > The module-assistant tool (also known as m-a) helps users and > maintainers with managing external kernel modules packaged for > Debian. It can do: The English here is okay, but the glaring omission is that by "kernel" it means "Linux kernel". > . > - automated preparation of build environment for modules compilation > (eg. automatical detection and installation of required kernel > source/headers) A couple of language issues: "eg." should be "e.g." (unless it's a mistake for "i.e." - often it's better to switch to plain "such as" or "that is)"; and there's no such word as "automatical" (you mean "automatic"). Since I'm editing it I'll impose the debian-l10n-english "house style" for bulleted lists, with asterisks and trailing semicolons. (Inflecting an attributive noun as in "moduleS compilation" is often a sign of non-native-speaker English, but in this case I'll assume it's an established idiomatic exception, like "moduleS packages" below.) > - automated module source downloads > - configuring and keeping track of external and localy built modules > packages Typo: s/localy/locally/. A minor stylistic improvement: use plain nouns ("configuration and tracking of...") for increased parallelism between items. > - semi-automated multiple builds for multiple kernel versions > . > It also contains some framework to be used by the build-scripts in the > accompanying modules-source packages in Debian. "Some framework" is ungrammatical, since "framework" happens to be a count noun. You could either say "a framework" or switch to its mass noun synonym and say "(some) infrastructure". My suggested version: | Description: tool to make module package creation easier | The module-assistant tool (also known as m-a) helps users and | maintainers with managing external Linux kernel modules packaged for | Debian. It can do: | . | * automated preparation of build environment for module compilation | (e.g. automatic detection and installation of required kernel | source/headers); | * automated module source downloads; | * configuration and tracking of external and locally built modules | packages; | * semi-automated multiple builds for multiple kernel versions. | . | It also contains a framework to be used by the build-scripts in the | accompanying modules-source packages in Debian. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)diff -ru module-assistant-0.11.4.pristine/debian/control module-assistant-0.11.4/debian/control --- module-assistant-0.11.4.pristine/debian/control 2011-06-29 21:27:27.000000000 +0100 +++ module-assistant-0.11.4/debian/control 2012-06-26 09:20:08.071392924 +0100 @@ -13,17 +13,17 @@ Recommends: liblocale-gettext-perl Suggests: build-essential, dialog | whiptail Description: tool to make module package creation easier - The module-assistant tool (also known as m-a) helps users and - maintainers with managing external kernel modules packaged for - Debian. It can do: + The module-assistant tool (also known as m-a) helps users and maintainers + with managing external Linux kernel modules packaged for Debian. It can + do: . - - automated preparation of build environment for modules compilation - (eg. automatical detection and installation of required kernel - source/headers) - - automated module source downloads - - configuring and keeping track of external and localy built modules - packages - - semi-automated multiple builds for multiple kernel versions + * automated preparation of build environment for module compilation + (e.g. automatic detection and installation of required kernel + source/headers); + * automated module source downloads; + * configuration and tracking of external and locally built modules + packages; + * semi-automated multiple builds for multiple kernel versions; . - It also contains some framework to be used by the build-scripts in the + It also contains some infrastructure to be used by the build-scripts in the accompanying modules-source packages in Debian.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: module-assistant Source-Version: 0.11.5 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of module-assistant, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated module-assistant package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 22:03:55 +0200 Source: module-assistant Binary: module-assistant Architecture: source all Version: 0.11.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Eduard Bloch <[email protected]> Changed-By: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> Description: module-assistant - tool to make module package creation easier Closes: 451721 481107 553464 591421 624737 641857 673411 673782 679099 697269 697436 702648 Changes: module-assistant (0.11.5) unstable; urgency=low . [ David Kalnischkies ] * try to open new (Linux >= 3.7) location for version.h aswell as the old location(s), thanks to Evgeni Golov (Closes: #697269, #702648) * fix xgettext 'invalid variable interpolation at "$"' error in strings, thanks to Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (also in #697269) * add Portuguese translation by Américo Monteiro (Closes: #591421) * change from (implicit) source format v1 to v3 (native) * fix "useful"-typo in manpage (found by lintian) * bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes needed) * remove \w from the dpkg-deb matching regex as utf-8 characters like "»«" 'qualify' as such so that m-a isn't extracting the path correctly: The regex is now '[^./]' to eat everything as needed. . [ Andreas Beckmann ] * Package description reviewed, thanks to Justin B Rye. (Closes: #679099) * Update compliant.list: - acx100-source + broadcom-sta-source (Closes: #673782) - cpad-kernel-source + dahdi-source (Closes: #641857) - drbd0.7-module-source - em8300-source - exmap-modules-source - fglrx-kernel-src + fglrx-legacy-source (Closes: #697436) + fglrx-source (Closes: #673411) - freeswan-modules-source - gpib-modules-source + ipset-source (Closes: #624737) - ivtv-source - kqemu-source + leds-alix-source + lustre-source - madwifi-source + openvswitch-datapath-source + oss4-source - rt2400-source - rt2500-source - rt2570-source - squashfs-source + tp-smapi-source + v4l2loopback-source + virtualbox-guest-source + virtualbox-source + vpb-driver-source + west-chamber-source + xtables-addons-source - zaptel-source (renamed to dahdi-source) * Remove support for pcmcia-source, not in squeeze or later. * Remove support for compilers that have not been in squeeze or later. * Sanitize postrm. * Use canonical Vcs-* URLs. * Clean old builddir before extracting tarball. (Closes: #481107, #553464) * Honour ACLs when checking writability of --userdir <dir>, thanks to Quentin Godfroy. (Closes: #451721) . [ Eduard Bloch ] * Add David and Andreas as co-maintainers. Checksums-Sha1: 9298c6dd33f46d8621827d657f5d26708258f2e5 1718 module-assistant_0.11.5.dsc 6736edfe26224ead398eea3a1ae3c434edc58d9b 110189 module-assistant_0.11.5.tar.gz 654cebcd6770f585d2c9e6b89f62c98e2ccb0c2e 118626 module-assistant_0.11.5_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: d0c80cd69da32b90cb0281aad65def2ca4acd2354769c5b62ea77748df6e1cc0 1718 module-assistant_0.11.5.dsc 435b6e433c60a1bd4bc79d755598caa10d0fc97259fe808965725a9d132de200 110189 module-assistant_0.11.5.tar.gz fc70ffd54e1f1be3fb13d576d456c63fe46b657d37f4a3414bed6092c75baa0f 118626 module-assistant_0.11.5_all.deb Files: bcb30699119eef8ccb469eb92474003d 1718 kernel optional module-assistant_0.11.5.dsc 454f05addc037ef819369ee6e747e7bc 110189 kernel optional module-assistant_0.11.5.tar.gz 40579fab1c4a71bf0fbf08bd00c6ed79 118626 kernel optional module-assistant_0.11.5_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRoR5pAAoJEF+zP5NZ6e0IbKMP/0PkwnuW5yuwM62ESGvjoFIs 2mgh7DHh2K2ePCbg6xWhEfJB7K+ucKGbxb97/Ehrxe3chQNf7P4xiJoQWg8CQYBs dPL//U7TjlrOC9uB6yKffH/PttWuPOHaSxYaTlymKcii733QO3YuO3zykQzfEh40 fhUyK9hYiPljZO2zvyR+Qc9PNjHHIqpD+gH7uLozlpmE4+s2WacM/3uRXWCLpcW+ Yrdsagw4PO+NmE/hM1rjpjG5tX9TUMtP4YultZZQWdHxFT1OCFmDgRcXZqdqUksi 6wITq00DVJkQPrt0NyKky1qpZIcHXKWdcA96BG/Ih9qqXZfnHQtBfm0nBalZQEZ7 tqE+NglN81zxHQVrIU8wEhtAa2j/aMXDAjLWXuAbzwT46nHHSWNxoQtLjhQErH3b 6wYHpVvn3PKsuFa8cPwoBt3Gds12wLzWdmGU83GbI5RDibBEd9iUFnI7W0clhC5Z F2G7lnuzbpo5BgF8WqMdVWHi5C9XtkbTOKvDOPFPcJVNOiXZaGuDCj6kJIOj+vqz TEFEVpNAdhC7p5g+Whx29exVLFspMp4NsnA6PmQnKttIL4KY1hUzIY/Mn+fNg0RR hS3wZdmAYzcJXIgkEec6/tAk9Pf+L/W+g+4RvV/ked0SS9wt5P5fX4uPOv4Rt4QX SuykcUsbaRBNr3TbjWvQ =5pdq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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