On (11/06/07 09:11), Russ Allbery wrote: > Reading them all over instead of reading the diff turned up one more > clarification. My apologies for not catching this the first time. > > (Was the conclusion to use single quotes? I should probably join > debian-l10n-english in my copious free time.)
There was no conclusion. If someone wanted to make a statement that only one should be used and pick one then we could follow it, but maybe we should stick with a more organic approach, where we just use whatever comes out at the end of the maintainer->reviewers->maintainer interaction. You would be very welcome to join in with the list. Now we have got going it seems to be clear that English as a first language is far from necessary. Christian does large parts of the rewrites himself, and Justin and MJ do a good job of picking up on the language issues. > > Template: krb5-admin-server/newrealm > > Type: note > Oh, and while we're reviewing this -- is this note debconf note abuse? I > didn't remove it the last time I changed the templates, but I wasn't > sure. Well, Christian is the one to ask, but I believe it might be. > krb524d is a daemon that converts Kerberos V5 tickets into Kerberos V4 > tickets for the krb524init program and other programs that obtain > Kerberos V4 tickets for compatibility with old applications. > > I don't want to give the impression that krb524d is only used if you're > running krb524init, since the latter is not one of the more common ways of > getting Kerberos V4 tickets. Most users actually use krb524d because of > old versions of aklog, although the version in Debian hasn't required this > for quite some time. The Red Hat Kerberos PAM module is another likely > use. > Your new wording is fine. However can I suggest krb524d is a daemon that converts Kerberos V5 tickets into Kerberos V4 tickets for programs, such as krb524init, that obtain Kerberos V4 tickets for compatibility with old applications. I hope this reads a little better, while not suggesting that krb524init is the only user. > Also, I'm not sure what standard you've been following for this with other > templates, but I've always been taught it's conventional to keep Unix > program names in lowercase at the start of a sentence, since the case > difference implies a different program. That seems like a good convention to me, and one that I use. However it does push technical writing conventions up against those of more traditional writing. Much like the "V5" vs. "v5" issue, which I did not speak up on before, but I would like to put a vote in for the latter if it is not too late. Thanks, James -- James Westby -- GPG Key ID: B577FE13 -- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
