Package: man-db Version: N/A Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Debian maintainer,
On Sunday, June 10, 2007, I notified you of the beginning of a review process concerning debconf templates for man-db. 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 man-db with these changes right now. The second phase of this process will begin on Saturday, June 30, 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 Thursday, July 12, 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 Friday, July 13, 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
--- man-db.old/debian/templates.master 2007-06-08 06:14:17.598713400 +0200 +++ man-db/debian/templates.master 2007-06-27 18:00:05.248625246 +0200 @@ -1,4 +1,14 @@ -Template: man-db/install-setuid +# 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: +man-db/install-setuid Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Should man and mandb be installed 'setuid man'? @@ -25,9 +35,9 @@ other packages. . If you do not build the database now, it will be built the next time - /etc/cron.weekly/mandb runs, or you can do it yourself using 'mandb -c' as - user 'man'. In the meantime, the 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands will not - be able to display any output. + /etc/cron.weekly/man-db runs (automatically or manually). Until then, + the 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands will not be able to display any + output. Template: man-db/rebuild-database Type: boolean @@ -39,9 +49,10 @@ happen in the background, possibly slowing down the installation of other packages. . + If you do not build the database now, it will be built the next time - /etc/cron.weekly/mandb runs, or you can do it yourself using 'mandb -c' as - user 'man'. In the meantime, the 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands will not - be able to display any output. + /etc/cron.weekly/man-db runs (automatically or manually). Until then, + the 'whatis' and 'apropos' commands will not be able to display any + output. . Incompatible changes like this should happen rarely. --- man-db.old/debian/control 2007-06-08 06:14:17.598713400 +0200 +++ man-db/debian/control 2007-06-10 12:36:17.008762830 +0200 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Provides: man, man-browser Conflicts: man, suidmanager (<< 0.50) Replaces: man, nlsutils -Description: The on-line manual pager +Description: on-line manual pager This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the
