Package: nis Version: N/A Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Debian maintainer,
On Friday, May 08, 2009, I notified you of the beginning of a review process concerning debconf templates for nis. 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, and if you have any objections, let me know in the next 3 days. However, please try to avoid uploading nis with these changes right now. The second phase of this process will begin on Saturday, May 30, 2009, 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, June 20, 2009. 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, June 21, 2009, 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: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- nis.old/debian/templates 2009-05-08 08:48:09.243683102 +0200 +++ nis/debian/templates 2009-05-27 07:13:01.108614668 +0200 @@ -1,8 +1,24 @@ +# 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: nis/domain Type: string -_Default: -_Description: NIS domain - You now need to choose a NIS domainname for your system. If you want this - machine to just be a client, enter the NIS domainname of your network. - Otherwise choose an appropriate NIS domainname. - +#flag:comment:2,3 +# Translators, it is recommended to keep "domainname" which is a +# technical term in NIS. If you insist on translating, you can do +# things such as: +# 'nom de domaine (domainname)' (for a French translation) +_Description: NIS domain: + Please choose the NIS "domainname" for this system. If you want this + machine to just be a client, you should enter the name of the + NIS domain you wish to join. + . + Alternatively, if this machine is to be a NIS server, you can + either enter a new NIS "domainname" or + the name of an existing NIS domain. --- nis.old/debian/control 2009-05-08 08:48:09.239833538 +0200 +++ nis/debian/control 2009-05-12 19:27:42.007709269 +0200 @@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ Architecture: any Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5.00) | debconf-2.0 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, netbase, make, portmap, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) -Conflicts: netstd (<=1.26) -Description: Clients and daemons for the Network Information Services (NIS) - The nis package allows you to use the NIS services from a NIS server or - to set up your own NIS server. NIS is mostly used to let several machines - in a network share the same account information (eg the password file). - NIS was formerly called Yellow Pages (YP). +Description: clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS) + This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain. + NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let + several machines in a network share the same account information, such + as the password file.
