Re: Bug#459664: this bug/#459664 - host.conf: multi on appears to be default

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Justin Pryzby wrote:

 #459664 - host.conf: multi on appears to be default
 http://bugs.debian.org./459664
 
 I just checked the source.  The default (when no host.conf exists or
 includes no multi line and none of the overriding environment
 variables are sert) seems to be multi off; however debian
 distributes a conffile with default content multi on, so the
 behavior default is different from the behavior default in glibc.
 It's not clear to me if this justifies an explanation in the manpage,
 as this same situation occurs with some regularity; perhaps the
 conffile should instead include comments; in particular, a commented
 line for each value that is left at the default (and of course an
 uncommented line for each value that's changed therefrom).

It is in fact a little bit inconsistent that glibc has a default and
we override it in /etc/host.conf by default.

I don't quite understand the rationale given by the manpage, namely:

   multi  Valid values are on and off.  If set to on, the resolv+  library
  will  return  all valid addresses for a host that appears in the
  /etc/hosts file, instead of only the  first.   This  is  off  by
  default, as it may cause a substantial performance loss at sites
  with large hosts files.

Are there really many systems using large hosts files these days?
Do they really suffer from bad performance by using multi on
(which, by way of /etc/host.conf, is the default in Debian).

Could we make multi on the default in glibc and remove host.conf entirely?


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Bug#486867: tzdata: [INTL:de] updated German debconf translation

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Package: tzdata
Version: 2008c-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch l10n

Please find the updated German debconf translation for tzdata
attached.

Please place this file in debian/po/ as de.po for your next upload.

If you update your template, please use 
'msgfmt --statistics pofile.po'
to check the po-files for fuzzy or untranslated strings.

If there are such strings, please contact me so I can update the 
German translation.

Greetings
Helge
# Translation of tzdata debconf templates to German
# Copyright (C) Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2007, 2008.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the tzdata package.
#
msgid 
msgstr 
Project-Id-Version: tzdata 2007b-1\n
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POT-Creation-Date: 2008-03-24 09:56-0400\n
PO-Revision-Date: 2008-06-18 18:05+0200\n
Last-Translator: Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n
Language-Team: de [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n
MIME-Version: 1.0\n
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15\n
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Africa
msgstr Afrika

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid America
msgstr Amerika

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Antarctica
msgstr Antarktis

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Australia
msgstr Australien

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Arctic
msgstr Arktis

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Asia
msgstr Asien

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Atlantic
msgstr Atlantik

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Europe
msgstr Europa

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Indian
msgstr Indien

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Pacific
msgstr Pazifik

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid SystemV
msgstr SystemV

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#. Note to translators:
#. - Etc will present users with a list
#. of GMT+xx or GMT-xx timezones
#. - SystemV will give the choice between zone named as per SystemV conventions:
#. EST5, MST7, etc.
#: ../templates:1001
msgid Etc
msgstr Usw.

#. Type: select
#. Description
#: ../templates:1002
msgid Geographic area:
msgstr Geographisches Gebiet:

#. Type: select
#. Description
#: ../templates:1002
msgid 
Please select the geographic area you live in. Subsequent configuration 
questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing 
the time zones in which they are located.
msgstr 
Bitte wählen Sie das geographische Gebiet aus, in dem Sie leben. Die 
folgenden Fragen werden dies weiter durch eine Auswahl von Städten, die ihre 
Zeitzonen repräsentieren, in der sie liegen, einschränken.

#. Type: select
#. Choices
#: ../templates:2001
msgid Abidjan
msgstr Abidjan

#. Type: select
#.