Package: watchdog
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Debian maintainer,
On Wednesday, June 06, 2007, I notified you of the beginning of a review process
concerning debconf templates for watchdog.
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 watchdog with these changes right now.
The second phase of this process will begin on Wednesday, June 27, 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 09, 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 10, 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
--- watchdog.old/debian/templates 2007-06-02 08:17:51.742324321 +0200
+++ watchdog/debian/templates 2007-06-24 01:07:27.693558412 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# 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: watchdog/run
Type: boolean
Default: true
@@ -9,15 +18,17 @@
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Restart watchdog on upgrades?
- If your kernel is configured with the CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT option,
- restarting watchdog will cause a spurious reboot (the kernel will think
- the watchdog daemon crashed).
+ If the kernel is configured with the CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT option
+ (which is not the default setting), restarting watchdog will cause a
+ spurious reboot (the kernel will assume that the watchdog daemon
+ crashed).
Template: watchdog/module
Type: string
Default: none
-_Description: Load watchdog module?
- Do you want the watchdog init script to preload a module for your watchdog
- driver before starting watchdog? The module "softdog" should work on all
- installations. If you don't want the script to load a module use "none".
+_Description: Watchdog module to preload:
+ Please choose which watchdog module should be preloaded before
+ starting watchdog. The 'softdog' module should be suited for all
+ installations. Enter 'none' if you don't want the script to load
+ a module.
--- watchdog.old/debian/control 2007-06-02 08:17:51.742324321 +0200
+++ watchdog/debian/control 2007-06-09 06:28:37.982414948 +0200
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, makedev (>= 2.3.1-24) | devfsd |
udev
Description: software watchdog
- The watchdog program writes to /dev/watchdog every ten seconds.
- If the device is open but not written to within a minute the machine
- will reboot -- a feature available when "software watchdog" support
- is compiled into the kernel.
+ The watchdog program writes to /dev/watchdog every ten seconds. If
+ the device is opened but not written to within a minute, the machine
+ will reboot. This feature is available when the kernel is built with
+ 'software watchdog' support (standard in Debian kernels).
.
The ability to reboot will depend on the state of the machine
and interrupts.
