Package: xfonts-traditional
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Debian maintainer,
On Sunday, February 05, 2012, I notified you of the beginning of a review
process
concerning debconf templates for xfonts-traditional.
The debian-l10n-english contributors have now reviewed these templates,
and the proposed changes are attached to this bug report.
Please review the suggested changes, and if you have any
objections, let me know in the next 3 days.
However, please try to avoid uploading xfonts-traditional with these changes
right now.
The second phase of this process will begin on Sunday, February 26, 2012, when
I will
coordinate updates to translations of debconf templates.
The existing translators will be notified of the changes: they will
receive an updated PO file for their language.
Simultaneously, a general call for new translations will be sent to
the debian-i18n mailing list.
Both these calls for translations will request updates to be sent as
individual bug reports. That will probably trigger a lot of bug
reports against your package, but these should be easier to deal with.
The call for translation updates and new translations will run until
about Sunday, March 18, 2012. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or
changed
debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of
course, other changes are safe.
Please note that this is an approximative delay, which depends on my
own availability to process this work and is influenced by the fact
that I simultaneously work on many packages.
Around Monday, March 19, 2012, I will contact you again and will send a final
patch
summarizing all the updates (changes to debconf templates,
updates to debconf translations and new debconf translations).
Again, thanks for your attention and cooperation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- xfonts-traditional.old/debian/xfonts-traditional.templates 2012-02-02 22:26:54.913955741 +0100
+++ xfonts-traditional/debian/xfonts-traditional.templates 2012-02-23 09:46:27.819584201 +0100
@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
+# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
+# team
+#
+# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
+# debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org for advice.
+#
+# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
+# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
+
Template: xfonts-traditional/generate
Type: boolean
Default: true
_Description: Generate traditional versions of fonts?
- xfonts-traditional can automatically generate traditional versions
- (with foundry "Trad" instead of "Misc" of all fonts for which it has
- an idea about the glyphs. (Currently this is versions of 6x13, aka
- "fixed").
+ With xfonts-traditional it is possible to automatically generate
+ traditional versions (with foundry "Trad" instead of "Misc") of all
+ fonts where it is clear what needs to be done. Currently this means
+ versions of 6x13, also known as "fixed".
.
- But you may prefer not to do this automatically, and would rather
- just have the tool installed.
+ But you may prefer just to have the tool installed and not to do this
+ automatically.
Template: xfonts-traditional/reconfigure-xterm
Type: boolean
@@ -17,12 +26,12 @@
You can have the xterm default UTF-8 font changed to the traditional
version.
.
- If you approve, I will edit /etc/X11/app-default/XTerm for you, and
- save your old file as XTerm.backup.not-trad. (Note that this is a
- conffile so you may get prompts from dpkg about it in the future.)
+ Choosing this option will modify /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, preserving
+ the old file as XTerm.backup.not-trad. As this is a configuration file,
+ you may get prompts from dpkg about it in the future.
.
- Alternatively, if you do not want me to change the default, I will
- generate XTerm.trad for you to do what you like with.
+ Alternatively, if you do not want to change the default, XTerm.trad
+ will be created but not used.
.
To revert the change, simply change the key "*VT100.utf8Fonts.font"
back from "-trad-..." to "-misc-...", or rename the old file back
@@ -32,28 +41,27 @@
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Configure system to use traditional "fixed"?
- You can have the font alias "fixed" remapped to the traditional version.
+ The "fixed" font alias can be remapped to the traditional version.
.
- If you approve, I will edit /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias for
- you, and save your old file as xfonts-base.alias.backup.not-trad.
- (Note that this is a conffile so you may get prompts from dpkg about
- it in the future.)
+ Choosing this option will modify /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias,
+ preserving the old file as xfonts-base.alias.backup.not-trad. As this is
+ a configuration file, you may get prompts from dpkg about it in the
+ future.
.
- Alternatively, if you do not want me to change the default, I will
- generate xfonts-base-alias.trad for you to do what you like with.
+ Alternatively, if you do not want to change the default, xfonts-base-alias.trad
+ will be created but not used.
.
- To revert the change to the default, simply change the alias "fixed"
+ To revert the change, simply change the alias "fixed"
back from "-trad-..." to "-misc-...", or rename the old file back
into place.
Template: xfonts-traditional/confirm-break-remove
Type: boolean
Default: false
-_Description: Remove anyway, breaking "fixed" and your X server?
- Removing xfonts-traditional would break your X server by removing "fixed".
+_Description: Remove xfonts-traditional, breaking "fixed" and the X server?
+ Removing xfonts-traditional would break the X server by removing "fixed".
.
You should not remove xfonts-traditional while "fixed" refers to one
- of its fonts. You probably want to check the differences between the
+ of its fonts. You first need to check the differences between the
various /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias*, reconcile any changes,
- and then run "update-fonts-alias misc". After that you can retry the
- removal.
+ and then run "update-fonts-alias misc".
--- xfonts-traditional.old/debian/control 2012-02-02 22:26:54.913955741 +0100
+++ xfonts-traditional/debian/control 2012-02-14 06:53:43.205457928 +0100
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
Package: xfonts-traditional
Architecture: all
Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, libsys-cpu-perl, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
-Description: Traditional fixed-width fonts for X
- Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts.
+Description: traditional fixed-width fonts for X
+ This package provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts.
.
These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name
"trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@
- traditional appearance of W a
.
These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character
- set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the
- backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000
+ set, as UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the
+ backquote and some other characters. With these fonts, pre-2000
documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render
correctly.
.
- Optionally, this package will edit your system configuration to make
+ Optionally, this package will edit the system's configuration to make
the default fonts used by xterm refer to the traditional font.
.
- (This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data;
+ This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data;
rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for
- each relevant font you have installed.)
+ each relevant font that's installed.
