Package: debian-reference
Version: 2.49
Severity: wishlist
This has been reported to me. Thanks.
Let's keep this in BTS so I won't loose this. (It was in my gmail spam box.).
Since neither of us are English native speaker, I do not know which is
better. In general, I trust Germans and French over Japanese for the
correctness of English grammar. Those points on "use of plural" "use of
a/an/the" ... are all valid points, e.g., "good idea" -> "a good idea".
(These are all trivial unfuzzy candidate changes.)
Small differences are:
-"(right) clicking the center of the screen and hope for a menu to pop-up."
+"(right) clicking the center of the background and hope for a menu to pop-up."
I see the point. "background of desktop screen" or something is more explicit.
Let's think ...
As for "owner", let's check manpage of chown:
en_US.utf8: chown - change file owner and group
de_DE.utf8: chown - Besitzer und Gruppe von Dateien ändern
Based on these, I think it is more common to use owner in the UNIX
context.
-"--- it does not store data, it just links two processes like the shell "
+"--- it does not store data, it just links two processes like the shell with "
"\"<literal>|</literal>\". However, since this pipe has a name, the two "
Not exactly ... Here, I meant:
--- it links two processes just like the facility offered by the shell
"\"<literal>|</literal>\" syntax.
Let's think.
"The Linux kernel may complain \"Too many open files\". You can fix this by "
"increasing \"<literal>file-max</literal>\" value to a larger value from the "
"root shell, e.g., \"<literal>echo \"65536\" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max</"
+### HW: my default stable system contains "206224" here as default value
+### HW: (I did not ever change this by hand). Maybe this paragraph can be
+### HW: skipped completely?
"literal>\" (This was needed on older kernels)."
msgstr ""
Maybe "The Linux kernel" -> "The older Linux kernel". (Maybe this is too old
info now. I should think about dropping it.
+### HW: there isn't a real 'linux-doc' package in Stable anymore, right?
+### HW: reword this to linux-doc-2.6.* package:
+### HW: (the same as in the paragraph about documentation regarding procfs and
sysfs)
+### HW:
+### HW: Ouch, wheezy is released with kernel 3.2. So the above is still wrong.
Well I still see linux-doc meta-package which install pertinent version.
That will be <literal>linux-doc-*</literal> package.
Instead of "2.6.*", make it "*" too.
Here is the original diff:
====================
--- debian-reference.pot 2012-12-01 11:44:05.100295727 +0100
+++ debian-reference_proposed-changes.pot 2012-12-10 22:36:21.560767785
+0100
@@ -3626,7 +3626,7 @@
msgid ""
"Under some other Desktop systems (like <literal>fluxbox</literal>), there "
"may be no obvious starting point for the menu. If this happens, just try "
-"(right) clicking the center of the screen and hope for a menu to pop-up."
+"(right) clicking the center of the background and hope for a menu to pop-up."
+### HW: that only works when rightclicking on the desktop (background), not on
an
+### HW: opened application window.
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><title>
@@ -4440,19 +4440,19 @@
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"The <emphasis role=\"strong\">read</emphasis> (<emphasis role=\"strong\">r</"
-"emphasis>) permission allows owner to examine contents of the file."
+"emphasis>) permission allows holder to examine contents of the file."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"The <emphasis role=\"strong\">write</emphasis> (<emphasis role=\"strong\">w</"
-"emphasis>) permission allows owner to modify the file."
+"emphasis>) permission allows holder to modify the file."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"The <emphasis role=\"strong\">execute</emphasis> (<emphasis role=\"strong"
-"\">x</emphasis>) permission allows owner to run the file as a command."
+"\">x</emphasis>) permission allows holder to run the file as a command."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
@@ -4463,19 +4463,19 @@
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"The <emphasis role=\"strong\">read</emphasis> (<emphasis role=\"strong\">r</"
-"emphasis>) permission allows owner to list contents of the directory."
+"emphasis>) permission allows holder to list contents of the directory."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"The <emphasis role=\"strong\">write</emphasis> (<emphasis role=\"strong\">w</"
-"emphasis>) permission allows owner to add or remove files in the directory."
+"emphasis>) permission allows holder to add or remove files in the directory."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"The <emphasis role=\"strong\">execute</emphasis> (<emphasis role=\"strong"
-"\">x</emphasis>) permission allows owner to access files in the directory."
+"\">x</emphasis>) permission allows holder to access files in the directory."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
@@ -4886,11 +4886,11 @@
"The Debian system uses a user private group (UPG) scheme as its default. A "
"UPG is created whenever a new user is added to the system. A UPG has the "
"same name as the user for which it was created and that user is the only "
-"member of the UPG. UPG scheme makes it is safe to set umask to "
+"member of the UPG. UPG scheme makes it safe to set umask to "
"<literal>0002</literal> since every user has their own private group. (In "
"some Unix variants, it is quite common to setup all normal users belonging "
"to a single <emphasis role=\"strong\"><literal>users</literal></emphasis> "
-"group and is good idea to set umask to <literal>0022</literal> for security "
+"group and is a good idea to set umask to <literal>0022</literal> for security
"
"in such cases.)"
msgstr ""
@@ -5273,7 +5273,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><caution><para>
msgid ""
-"It is generally good idea not to create complicated symbolic links or "
+"It is generally a good idea not to create complicated symbolic links or "
"hardlinks at all unless you have a very good reason. It may cause "
"nightmares where the logical combination of the symbolic links results in "
"loops in the filesystem."
@@ -5321,7 +5321,7 @@
"doesn't terminate until the information being written is read from the "
"pipe. If you read from a named pipe, the reading process waits until there "
"is nothing to read before terminating. The size of the pipe is always zero "
-"--- it does not store data, it just links two processes like the shell "
+"--- it does not store data, it just links two processes like the shell with "
"\"<literal>|</literal>\". However, since this pipe has a name, the two "
"processes don't have to be on the same command line or even be run by the "
"same user. Pipes were a very influential innovation of Unix."
@@ -5452,22 +5452,22 @@
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"\"<literal>/dev/sda</literal>\" has the major device number 8 and the minor "
-"device number 0. This is read/write accessible by the user who belongs to "
+"device number 0. This is read/write accessible by users belonging to "
"<literal>disk</literal> group."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"\"<literal>/dev/sr0</literal>\" has the major device number 11 and the minor "
-"device number 0. This is read/write accessible by the user who belongs to "
+"device number 0. This is read/write accessible by users belonging to "
"<literal>cdrom</literal> group."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
msgid ""
"\"<literal>/dev/ttyS0</literal>\" has the major device number 4 and the "
-"minor device number 64. This is read/write accessible by the user who "
-"belongs to <literal>dialout</literal> group."
+"minor device number 64. This is read/write accessible by users "
+"belonging to <literal>dialout</literal> group."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of:
<book><chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
@@ -5596,8 +5596,8 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
msgid ""
-"The directories under \"<literal>/proc/sys/</literal>\" contain interface to "
-"change certain kernel parameters at run time. (You may do the same through "
+"The directories under \"<literal>/proc/sys/</literal>\" contain an interface
to "
+"change certain kernel parameters at run time. (You may do the same through
the "
"specialized <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</"
"manvolnum></citerefentry> command or its preload/configuration file "
"\"<literal>/etc/sysctrl.conf</literal>\".)"
@@ -5608,6 +5608,9 @@
"The Linux kernel may complain \"Too many open files\". You can fix this by "
"increasing \"<literal>file-max</literal>\" value to a larger value from the "
"root shell, e.g., \"<literal>echo \"65536\" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max</"
+### HW: my default stable system contains "206224" here as default value
+### HW: (I did not ever change this by hand). Maybe this paragraph can be
+### HW: skipped completely?
"literal>\" (This was needed on older kernels)."
msgstr ""
@@ -5624,7 +5627,7 @@
msgid ""
"The directory under \"<literal>/sys</literal>\" contains exported kernel "
"data structures, their attributes, and their linkages between them. It also "
-"contains interface to change certain kernel parameters at run time."
+"contains an interface to change certain kernel parameters at run time."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
@@ -5672,9 +5675,14 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
msgid ""
+### HW: there isn't a real 'linux-doc' package in Stable anymore, right?
+### HW: reword this to linux-doc-2.6.* package:
+### HW: (the same as in the paragraph about documentation regarding procfs and
sysfs)
+### HW:
+### HW: Ouch, wheezy is released with kernel 3.2. So the above is still wrong.
"See \"<literal>tmpfs.txt(.gz)</literal>\" in the Linux kernel documentation "
-"(\"<literal>/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-*/Documentation/filesystems/*</literal>"
-"\") provided by the <literal>linux-doc-*</literal> package."
+"(\"<literal>/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.*/Documentation/filesystems/*</literal>"
+"\") provided by the <literal>linux-doc-2.6.*</literal> package."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><title>
@@ -7683,7 +7691,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><tip><para>
msgid ""
"When filing a bug report, running and checking the command under "
-"\"<literal>LANG=en_US.UTF-8</literal>\" is good idea if you use non-English "
+"\"<literal>LANG=en_US.UTF-8</literal>\" is a good idea if you use non-English
"
"environment."
msgstr ""
@@ -14797,7 +14805,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><tip><para>
msgid ""
-"It is good idea to remove (not purge!) as much packages to minimize "
+"It is a good idea to remove (not purge!) as much packages to minimize "
"dependency problems. You may need to manually remove and install some "
"packages to get system downgraded. Linux kernel, bootloader, udev, PAM, "
"APT, and networking related packages and their configuration files require "
@@ -23060,7 +23068,7 @@
"manvolnum></citerefentry> now. If you want to reject mail before "
"downloading to save bandwidth, <literal>mailfilter</literal> or "
"<literal>mpop</literal> may be useful. Whichever mail retriever utilities "
-"are used, it is good idea to configure system to deliver retrieved mails to "
+"are used, it is a good idea to configure system to deliver retrieved mails to
"
"MDA, such as <literal>maildrop</literal>, via pipe."
msgstr ""
@@ -23227,7 +23235,7 @@
"manvolnum></citerefentry> has been de facto standard for MDA with filter on "
"GNU/Linux, author likes <citerefentry><refentrytitle>maildrop</"
"refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> now. Whichever "
-"filtering utilities are used, it is good idea to configure system to deliver "
+"filtering utilities are used, it is a good idea to configure system to
deliver "
"filtered mails to a <ulink url=\"&qmailstylemaildir;\">qmail-style Maildir</"
"ulink>."
msgstr ""
@@ -26634,7 +26642,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><tip><para>
msgid ""
-"It is good idea to install system wide default locale as \"<literal>en_US."
+"It is a good idea to install system wide default locale as \"<literal>en_US."
"UTF-8</literal>\" for maximum compatibility."
msgstr ""
@@ -28451,7 +28459,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><caution><para>
msgid ""
"Use of <ulink url=\"&aufs;\">aufs</ulink> for long term data storage is not "
-"good idea since it is under development and its design change may introduce "
+"a good idea since it is under development and its design change may introduce
"
"issues."
msgstr ""
@@ -36424,7 +36432,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
msgid ""
-"Even if your upstream uses different VCS, it may be good idea to use "
+"Even if your upstream uses different VCS, it may be a good idea to use "
"<citerefentry><refentrytitle>git</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></"
"citerefentry> for local activity since you can manage your local copy of "
"source tree without the network connection to the upstream. Here are some "
@@ -39308,7 +39316,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><tip><para>
msgid ""
"<ulink url=\"&codeexamplesofcrgjjbottlesofbeer;\">Code examples of creating "
-"\"Song 99 Bottles of Beer\"</ulink> should give you good idea of practically "
+"\"Song 99 Bottles of Beer\"</ulink> should give you a good idea of
practically "
"all the programming languages."
msgstr ""
@@ -40107,7 +40115,7 @@
#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><section><section><para>
msgid ""
"In order to make your shell program as portable as possible across Debian "
-"system, it is good idea to limit utility programs to ones provided by "
+"system, it is a good idea to limit utility programs to ones provided by "
"<emphasis role=\"strong\">essential</emphasis> packages."
msgstr ""
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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ii debian-reference-en 2.49
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ii debian-reference-it 2.49
ii debian-reference-ja 2.49
ii debian-reference-pt 2.49
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