Package: apt-listchanges Version: N/A Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Debian maintainer,
On Monday, November 26, 2007, I notified you of the beginning of a review process concerning debconf templates for apt-listchanges. 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 apt-listchanges with these changes right now. The second phase of this process will begin on Saturday, December 15, 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 about Saturday, January 05, 2008. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or changed debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of course, other changes are safe. Please note that this is an approximative delay, which depends on my own availability to process this work and is influenced by the fact that I simultaneously work on many packages. Around Sunday, January 06, 2008, 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 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- apt-listchanges.old/debian/templates 2007-11-24 13:41:54.270251200 +0530 +++ apt-listchanges/debian/templates 2007-12-12 00:34:59.563590686 +0530 @@ -1,62 +1,67 @@ +# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english +# team +# +# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask +# [EMAIL PROTECTED] for advice. +# +# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such +# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers. + Template: apt-listchanges/frontend Type: select -__Choices: pager, gtk, browser, xterm-pager, xterm-browser, text, mail, none +__Choices: pager, browser, xterm-pager, xterm-browser, gtk, text, mail, none Default: pager _Description: Method for changes display: - apt-listchanges can display package changes in a number of different - ways. + Package changes may be displayed by apt-listchanges + in a number of different ways. . - pager : use your preferred pager to display changes one page at - a time; - gtk : Display changes in a Gtk window; - browser : display HTML-formatted changes using a web browser; - xterm-pager : like pager, but in an xterm in the background; - xterm-browser : like browser, but in an xterm in the background; - text : print changes to your terminal (without pausing); - mail : only send changes via mail; - none : do not run automatically from apt. + pager : display changes one page at a time; + browser : display HTML-formatted changes using a web browser; + xterm-pager : like pager, but in an xterm in the background; + xterm-browser: like browser, but in an xterm in the background; + gtk : display changes in a GTK window; + text : print changes to the terminal (without pausing); + mail : only send changes via mail; + none : do not run automatically from APT. . - This setting can be overridden by a command-line option or an environment - variable. Note that you can still send a copy via mail with all of the - frontends except 'none'. + This setting can be overridden at execution time. All frontends but + 'none' can also mail a copy. Template: apt-listchanges/email-address Type: string Default: root -_Description: E-mail Address(es) which will receive changes: - apt-listchanges can email a copy of displayed changes. Please enter - the email address the changes should be sent to. +_Description: E-mail address(es) which will receive changes: + Optionally, apt-listchanges can e-mail a copy of displayed changes to + a specified address. . - Multiple addresses may be specified, delimited by commas. Leave this - empty if you do not want any email to be sent. + Multiple addresses may be specified, delimited by commas. Leaving this + field empty disables mail notifications. Template: apt-listchanges/confirm Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Prompt for confirmation after displaying changes? - After giving you a chance to read the list of changes, apt-listchanges - can ask whether or not you would like to continue. This is useful when - running from apt, as it gives you a chance to abort the upgrade if you see - a change you do not want to apply (yet). + After displaying the list of changes, apt-listchanges may pause with + a confirmation prompt. This is useful when running from APT, as it + offers an opportunity to abort the upgrade if a change is unwelcome. . This setting does not apply to the 'mail' or 'none' frontends, and can be - overridden with a command line option. + overridden at execution time. Template: apt-listchanges/save-seen Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Should apt-listchanges skip changes that have already been seen? - apt-listchanges has the capability to keep track of which changes - have already been displayed, and to skip them in future - invocations. This is useful, for example, when retrying an upgrade. + A record of already displayed changes can be kept in order to avoid + displaying them again. This is useful, for example, when retrying an upgrade. Template: apt-listchanges/which Type: select -_Choices: news, both, changelogs +__Choices: news, changelogs, both Default: news -_Description: Changes displayed with apt: +_Description: Changes displayed with APT: Please choose which type of changes should be displayed with APT. . - news - important news items only - both - both news and detailed changelogs - changelogs - detailed changelogs only + news : important news items only; + changelogs: detailed changelogs only; + both : news and changelogs. --- apt-listchanges.old/debian/control 2007-11-24 13:41:54.270251200 +0530 +++ apt-listchanges/debian/control 2007-12-08 00:42:00.846265400 +0530 @@ -16,13 +16,14 @@ ucf (>= 0.28), debianutils (>= 2.0.2) Recommends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent, python-glade2, python-gtk2 Suggests: x-terminal-emulator, www-browser -Description: Display change history from .deb archives - apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new - version of a Debian package, as compared to the version currently - installed on the system. It does this by extracting the relevant - entries from the Debian changelog file, and the NEWS.Debian file. +Description: package change history notification tool + The tool apt-listchanges can compare a new version of a + package with the one currently installed and show what has been + changed, by extracting the relevant entries from the Debian changelog + and NEWS files. . It can be run on several .deb archives at a time to get a list of all - of the changes that would be effected by installing or upgrading a - group of packages. It can be configured to do this automatically - during upgrades using apt. + changes that would be caused by installing or upgrading a group of + packages. When configured as an APT plugin it will do this + automatically during upgrades. +
