On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:59:42AM -0500, Christine Spang wrote: > Package: openntpd > Version: 3.9p1-3 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > Your package's description contains several grammatical mistakes, > making it difficult to understand. Please consider replacing > your package's description in debian/control with the attached > update. It fixes the grammatical mistakes and makes the description > more similar to the description of the ntp package.
Thank you for looking at it. I think I didn't write it, but I obviously should have looked at it better. (Not that my English is perfect, but some of them are very obvious to me.) I do have a few comments about your changes though. Kurt > --- debian/control 2006-12-17 00:26:08.000000000 -0500 > +++ debian-new/control 2006-12-17 00:55:59.000000000 -0500 > @@ -12,13 +12,15 @@ > Conflicts: time-daemon, ntp, chrony > Replaces: time-daemon, ntp, chrony > Description: OpenBSD NTP daemon > - NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep the computers clock > - synchronize. It provides the ability to sync the local clock to remote > - NTP servers and can act as NTP server itself, redistributing the local > - clock. > + NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks > + accurate by synchronizing them over the Internet or a local network, > + or by following an accurate hardware receiver that interprets GPS, > + DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals. openntpd can not synchronize to an GPS or simular directly, it only works with other ntp servers. On the other hand, the ntp package does support those things. While it is true that this is how the protocol works, it might be confusing, and people might think that openntpd also supports those local reference clocks. > - This is an alternative implementation of the NTP software made by the > - OpenBSD project. It makes use of privilege separation. > + This is an alternative implementation of the NTP software, made by the > + OpenBSD project. It makes use of privilege separation, only > + implements a subset of the NTP protocol, and does not adjust the > + rate of the clock. > . > - It only implements a subset of the NTP protocol and does not adjust the > - rate of the clock. Alternatives packages are ntp and chrony. > + Alternative packages which provide similar functionality are "ntp" > + and "chrony". This part looks good. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
