On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
However, with nice fellows, I'm less lazy, so I can
explain..:-)
Thanks for the "nice fellow". ;-)
Actually I'm more than willing to make good templates thus any critics is
welcome.
#: ../gnumed-client.templates:4
msgid "On which host is the GNUmed database running?"
msgstr ""
In the debconf templates style guide, I suggest avoiding questions for
string templates and rathe ruse "opened" prompts like the above
I replaced it by
"Please specify the host that is running the GNUmed database."
Is this OK?
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../gnumed-client.templates:4
msgid "Default: localhost."
msgstr "Défaut : localhost."
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../gnumed-client.templates:4
msgid "(This means server and client are installed on the very same computer.)"
msgstr "(Le choix par défaut signifie que le serveur et le client sont installés sur
la "
"même machine.)"
I tend to discourage hardcoding default values in templates. This is
because the "default" value will be different for reconfigures for
instance.
I'm a little bit hesitant in this case. Currently the localhost option does not
even exist because there is actually no such package which provides this
functionality (because upstream did not yet released this part of the beast).
So currently my default is completely useless. But later on it will give the
intended audience a quite reasonable defult which will work in most of the
cases and thus I'm not sure whether I should leave out this one.
I'd suggest something like dropping "Default: localhost" and keeping
as 2nd paragraph:
"If the server and the client run on the same host, you should use
'localhost' here."
But this salomonic solution sounds reasonable and I took it over.
#. Type: multiselect
#. Description
#: ../gnumed-common.templates:4
msgid "Please specify the GNUmed users!"
msgstr "Veuillez choisir les utilisateurs GNUmed !"
I highly discourage exclamation marks and here, the template being a
select quesiton, I'd suggest:
You are perfectly all right. I started with GNUmed packaging about three years
ago and this template was written before a style guide existed. I will
change this in the arb-common template as well, because this is just a copy of
the code.
"Please choose, among the list of all unprivileged users of the system, those who
will be allowed running GNUmed"
This avoids "here is"...which is somewhat interface dependent. I also
recommend avoiding talking about "normal" users, in a very politically
correct mood..:-)
I took over all these recommendations. Do you want me to upload a new package
immediately (after your comments) or should I wait until the package gathers
just another bug. The problem is that perhaps some other translators will waste
their time on just fixed templates and thus I would tend to a speedy upload.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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