[SVN] r559 - in /trunk/cyrus-imapd-2.2.13/debian: cyrus-common-2.2.templates po/templates.pot

[Sven Mueller]

Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, debian at incase.de wrote:
>>   
>>> - Should I remove the Cyrus mail and news spools, as well as the user's
>>> + Should the Cyrus mail and news spools be removed, as well as the user's
>>   
>>> -"Should I remove the Cyrus mail and news spools, as well as the user's sieve "
>>> +"Should the Cyrus mail and news spools be removed, as well as the user's sieve "
>>>  "scripts, when the package is purged ?"
>>>     
>> FWIW, I agree with the above changes. It looks better without the "I".
> 
> Don't anthromorphize debconf, it hates that.*
> 
> *I agree (though I'd be find either way)


The problem with the change is that the associated translations also
need to get updated. I don't know how do achieve that, so I reversed the
change for the moment.

The change was due to two warnings (actually the change only resolves
one of them) that sid's lintian issued when I checked the -6 packages
yesterday. Here they are:

warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with root privileges!
W: cyrus-common-2.2: using-question-in-extended-description-in-templates
cyrus-common-2.2/removespools
N:
N:   The extended description of a boolean debconf template should not
N:   include a question.
N:
N:   If this template is only used internally by the package and not
N:   displayed to the user, put "for internal use" in the short
N:   description.
N:
N:   Refer to Developers Reference, section 6.5.4.2.2 for details.
N:
W: cyrus-common-2.2: using-first-person-in-templates
cyrus-common-2.2/removespools
N:
N:   You should avoid the use of first person ("I will do this..." or "We
N:   recommend..."). The computer is not a person and the Debconf templates
N:   do not speak for the Debian developers. You should use neutral
N:   construction and often the passive form.
N:
N:   If this template is only used internally by the package and not
N:   displayed to the user, put "for internal use" in the short
N:   description.
N:
N:   Refer to Developers Reference, section 6.5.2.5 for details.
N:

linda warned about old config.sub/config.guess files, but we update them
through the dpatch patches, so that shouldn't be a problem. We could
eliminate that by updating or removing them by way of the Debian diff
instead of debian/rules and dpatch.

Regards,
Sven