Package: boxbackup
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Debian maintainer,
On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, I notified you of the beginning of a review process
concerning debconf templates for boxbackup.
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 are suggested, and if you have any
objections, let me know in the next 3 days.
Please try to avoid uploading boxbackup with these changes right now.
The second phase of this process will begin on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 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
Monday, July 02, 2007. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or changed
debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of
course, other changes are safe.
On Tuesday, July 03, 2007, 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: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- boxbackup.old/debian/boxbackup-client.templates 2007-05-25
08:09:06.963866340 +0200
+++ boxbackup/debian/boxbackup-client.templates 2007-06-17 20:47:40.785740741
+0200
@@ -1,130 +1,137 @@
+# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
+# team
+#
+# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
+# for an advice to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+#
+# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
+# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
+
Template: boxbackup-client/debconf
Type: boolean
Default: true
-_Description: Do you want to handle the boxbackup client configuration with
debconf?
- Debconf can create the configuration files for boxbackup client.
- If you prefer to do this by yourself you will need to use the script
- bbackupd-config provided by this package.
+_Description: Should the BoxBackup client be configured automatically?
+ The package configuration scripts can create the configuration files
+ for the BoxBackup client.
.
- The server won't start if it isn't configured.
+ You should choose this option if you are not familiar with BoxBackup's
+ configuration options.
.
- Whatever you choose here, you will need to read the README.Debian file
- in /usr/share/doc/boxbackup-client.
+ Please read the /usr/share/doc/boxbackup-client/README.Debian for details
+ about the configuration of the BoxBackup client.
Template: boxbackup-client/backupMode
Type: select
Choices: lazy, snapshot
-_Description: Run boxbackup client in lazy or snapshot mode:
- Boxbackup client supports two modes of backup:
+#flag:comment:3
+# Translators, please keep reference to 'lazy' and 'snapshot' as
+# these options are written as is in the software documentation
+_Description: Run mode for the BoxBackup client:
+ The BoxBackup client supports two modes of backup:
.
- In the lazy mode, the backup daemon will regularly scan your filesystem
- searching for modified files. It will then upload the files over a
+ In the 'lazy' mode, the backup daemon will regularly scan the file system
+ searching for modified files. It will then upload the files older than a
specified age to the backup server.
.
- In snapshot mode the backup will be explicitly run at given time set in
- a cron entry. The cron file is provided with this package, you will
- have to set the time you wish the backup to occur
- (/etc/cron.d/boxbackup-client).
+ In the 'snapshot' mode the backup will be explicitly run at regular intervals.
+ A cron file (/etc/cron.d/boxbackup-client) is provided with the
+ package and should be adapted to suit your needs.
Template: boxbackup-client/accountNumber
Type: string
_Description: Account number for this node on the backup server:
- The administrator of the boxbackup server (perhaps you) should have provided
- you an account number. It consits in an hexadecimal number.
+ The administrator of the BoxBackup server should have assigned this client
+ a hexadecimal account number.
.
- If you don't already have one, leave that field blank. You will be able to
- configure it later by running dpkg-reconfigure boxbackup-client as root.
+ If no account number has been assigned yet, leave this field blank and
+ configure it later by running 'dpkg-reconfigure boxbackup-client' as root.
Template: boxbackup-client/incorrectAccountNumber
-Type: note
-_Description: Please enter an hexadecimal number
- The account number must be an hexadecimal number (e.g. 1E04 or 4500).
+Type: error
+_Description: Invalid account number
+ The account number must be a hexadecimal number (such as 1F04 or 4500).
Template: boxbackup-client/backupServer
Type: string
-_Description: Full qualified domain name of the backup server:
- The server name is the computer running an instance of Boxbackup server
- your client will connect to. It must be the fully qualified domain name
- of that machine (that can be resolve to an IP address).
- If you are behind a firewall, you must allow outgoing connexion to tcp
- port 2201 to be able to reach the server.
+_Description: Fully qualified domain name of the backup server:
+ Please enter the fully qualified domain name of the BoxBackup server which
+ your client will use.
+ .
+ The client will connect to the server on TCP port 2201.
Template: boxbackup-client/backupDirs
Type: string
_Description: List of directories to backup:
- You must tell boxbackup which directories you would like to backup to the
remote
- server.
+ Please give a space-separated list of directories to be backed up onto
+ the remote server.
.
- You must enter this directories as a space separated list of absolute path
names.
- Be careful that those directories do NOT contain other mounted file systems
within
- them at any depth or you will have problems.
+ Those directories should not contain mounted file systems at any level
+ in their subdirectories.
Template: boxbackup-client/incorrectDirectories
-Type: note
-_Description: Please enter correct path names
- The path names to the directories must be absolute path names separated by
spaces.
+Type: error
+_Description: Invalid path name
+ The path names to the directories must be absolute path names, separated
+ by spaces.
.
For example: /home/myaccount /etc/
Template: boxbackup-client/UpdateStoreInterval
Type: string
Default: 3600
-_Description: Interval in seconds between scan of directories:
- Boxbackup scans the directories you have selected looking for modified files.
- This scans occurs at regular interval that you can customize.
+_Description: Interval (in seconds) between directory scans:
+ BoxBackup regularly scans the selected directories, looking for modified
+ files.
.
- The default value is 3600s (one hour).
+ Please choose the scan interval in seconds.
Template: boxbackup-client/MinimumFileAge
Type: string
Default: 21600
-_Description: Time to wait after a file modification before uploading it:
+_Description: Minimum time to wait (in seconds) before uploading a file:
A file will be uploaded to the server only after a certain time after its
- last modification. Reducing this value results in often modfied files being
- uploaded more often to the server. This means that more revisions will be
- created on the server and therefore the quota limit will be reached faster
- (thus removing older revisions of the files sooner).
+ last modification.
.
- The default value is 21600 seconds (six hours).
+ Low interval values will trigger frequent uploads to the server and more
+ revisions being created with older revisions being removed earlier.
Template: boxbackup-client/MaxUploadWait
Type: string
Default: 86400
-_Description: Maximum time to wait before uploading a frequently modified file:
- As a file is not uploaded before a certain time after its last modification,
- if it is frequently modified, it would never get uploaded. So this parameter
- defines the maximum time to wait since the first modification noticed
- before uploading a file.
+_Description: Maximum time to wait (in seconds) before uploading a file:
+ Frequently modified files are likely to never get uploaded if they
+ never reach the minimum wait time.
.
- The default value is 86400 seconds (1 day).
+ Please enter the maximum time to reach before the upload of a modified
+ file to the server is enforced.
Template: boxbackup-client/IncorrectNumber
-Type: note
-_Description: Please enter a correct number of seconds
- This parameter must be a number.
+Type: error
+_Description: Invalid time entered
+ Please enter a non null integer value.
Template: boxbackup-client/notifyMail
Type: string
Default: root
-_Description: User name or email address to send notification to:
- Boxbackup client must know the user name or email address of the person
- who will receive alert notifications. Such notifications are sent when
- a problem occurs during the backup (the store is full or some files
- were not readable).
+_Description: Recipient for alert notifications:
+ The BoxBackup client sends alert notifications when a problem occurs
+ during the backup.
.
- Enter either a user name (e.g. root) or an email address (e.g. [EMAIL
PROTECTED])
+ Please enter either a local user name (for example 'root') or an email
+ address (for example '[EMAIL PROTECTED]').
Template: boxbackup-client/generateCertificate
Type: boolean
Default: true
-_Description: Generate the client private key and x509 certificate request?
- The boxbackup client needs a RSA private key and the corresponding x509
certificate
- to authenticate itself to the server.
- .
- Debconf can generate for you the private key and a x509 certificate sign
request.
- You will need to send the certificate request to the administrator of the
Boxbackup server
- and this one will sign it and send it back to you along with the server
Certification Authority
- certificate. You will need to put these files in your boxbackup configuration
directory (see
- /etc/boxbackup/bbackupd.conf file for the exact name to give to these files).
- .
- If you prefer to manage this by yourself, say No here.
+_Description: Generate the client private key and X.509 certificate request?
+ The BoxBackup client needs an RSA private key and the corresponding X.509
+ certificate to authenticate itself with the server.
+ .
+ Both can be generated automatically. You will need to send the
+ certificate request to the BoxBackup server administrator who will
+ sign it and send it back to you along with the server's Certification
+ Authority certificate.
+ .
+ These files should be copied into BoxBackup's configuration
+ directory. The file names to use are given in the
+ /etc/boxbackup/bbackupd.conf file.
--- boxbackup.old/debian/boxbackup-server.templates 2007-05-25
08:09:07.015866774 +0200
+++ boxbackup/debian/boxbackup-server.templates 2007-06-17 20:48:06.784417003
+0200
@@ -1,36 +1,46 @@
+# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
+# team
+#
+# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
+# for an advice to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+#
+# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
+# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
+
Template: boxbackup-server/debconf
Type: boolean
Default: true
-_Description: Should Debconf handle your boxbackup config?
- Debconf can create the configuration files for boxbackup server.
- Select this option if you are familiar with boxbackup's
- configuration options. If you prefer to do this by yourself you
- will need to use the scripts raidfile-config and bbstored-config
- provided by this package.
- .
- The server won't start if it isn't configured.
- .
- Whatever you choose here, you will need to read the README.Debian file
- in /usr/share/doc/boxbackup-server.
+_Description: Should BoxBackup be configured automatically?
+ The package configuration scripts can create the configuration files
+ for the BoxBackup server.
+ .
+ You should choose this option if you are not familiar with BoxBackup's
+ configuration options. The configuration can be done manually with the
+ 'raidfile-config' and 'bbstored-config' scripts.
+ .
+ The server will not start if it is not configured. In all cases,
+ reading the /usr/share/doc/boxbackup-server/README.Debian is
+ recommended.
Template: boxbackup-server/raidDirectories
Type: string
_Description: Location of the RAID directories:
- You have to choose the location for the 3 RAID file directories.
- To enable RAID, it must be 3 directories path names separated by spaces
- and those path names should point to 3 partitions on 3 differents
- physical hard drives.
- For example: /raid/0.0 /raid/0.1 /raid/0.2
+ Please choose the location for the three RAID file directories.
+ .
+ To enable RAID, the directory names should be a space-separated list of
+ three partitions, each on different physical hard drives (for example:
+ '/raid/0.0 /raid/0.1 /raid/0.2').
.
If you don't want to enable RAID, just specify the path to one directory
- where the backups will be stored in (e.g. /usr/local/lib/boxbackup).
+ where the backups will be stored (for example, /usr/local/lib/boxbackup).
.
- If they don't allready exist, these directories will be created for you.
+ These directories will be created if they do not exist.
Template: boxbackup-server/incorrectDirectories
-Type: note
-_Description: Please enter correct path names
- The path names to the directories must be absolute path names separated by
spaces.
+Type: error
+_Description: Invalid path names
+ The path names to the directories must be absolute path names,
+ separated by spaces.
.
For example: /raid/0.0 /raid/0.1 /raid/0.2
@@ -39,27 +49,28 @@
Default: 4096
_Description: Block size for the userland RAID system:
BoxBackup uses userland RAID techniques.
- You have to choose the block size to use for the storage.
- For maximum efficiency, set it to the block size of the underlying
- filesystem (see tune2fs -l /dev/... to find your block size).
- Even if you don't plan to use RAID, you have to set that value.
+ .
+ Please choose the block size to use for the storage.
+ For maximum efficiency, you should choose the block size of the underlying
+ file system (which can be displayed with the 'tune2fs -l' command).
+ .
+ This value should be set even if you don't plan to use RAID.
Template: boxbackup-server/generateCertificate
Type: boolean
Default: true
-_Description: Generate a the server private key and x509 certificate request?
- The boxbackup server needs a RSA private key and the corresponding x509
+_Description: Generate a server private key and X.509 certificate request?
+ The BoxBackup server needs an RSA private key and the corresponding X.509
certificate to perform client-server authentication and communication
encryption.
.
- Debconf can generate for you the private key and a x509 certificate sign
request.
- You will need to sign the certificate with your root CA (see the
boxbackup-utils package)
- and put this signed certificate and the root CA certificate in your
configuration folder.
- .
- If you prefer to manage this by yourself, say No here.
+ Both can be generated automatically. You will need to sign the
+ certificate with your root CA (see the boxbackup-utils package) and
+ put this signed certificate and the root CA certificate in the
+ configuration folder.
Template: boxbackup-server/incorrectBlocksize
-Type: note
-_Description: Please enter a power of two number
- The block size must be a power of two number (e.g. 1024 or 4096).
+Type: error
+_Description: Invalid block size
+ The block size must be a power of two (e.g. 1024 or 4096).
--- boxbackup.old/debian/control 2007-05-25 08:09:06.999866641 +0200
+++ boxbackup/debian/control 2007-06-17 20:48:30.283220548 +0200
@@ -11,20 +11,20 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, perl, gawk, ucf,
openssl, debconf | debconf-2.0
Recommends: boxbackup-utils
-Description: Server for BoxBackup remote backup system
- Boxbackup is an automatic on-line backup system.
+Description: server for the BoxBackup remote backup system
+ BoxBackup is an automatic on-line backup system.
The server waits for connections from remote clients,
- authenticates them via x509 certificates and stores the
- encrypted data on hard drives with optionnals RAID techniques.
+ authenticates them via X.509 certificates and stores the
+ encrypted data on hard drives with optional RAID techniques.
It also supports versions historization and per-user quotas.
Package: boxbackup-client
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ucf, perl, openssl, debconf |
debconf-2.0
-Description: Client for BoxBackup remote backup system
- Boxbackup is an automatic on-line backup system.
- The client is watching for changes on the local filesystem,
- connects to a Boxbackup server and send the changes via a
+Description: client for the BoxBackup remote backup system
+ BoxBackup is an automatic on-line backup system.
+ The client watches for changes on the local file system,
+ connects to a BoxBackup server and sends the changes via a
secure channel. All data is encrypted before being sent to
- the server. A command line tool is provided for restoration
+ the server. A command-line tool is provided for restoration
of backups including deleted files and old versions.
