Package: netselect Version: N/A Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Debian maintainer,
On Thursday, February 05, 2009, I notified you of the beginning of a review process concerning debconf templates for netselect. 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 netselect with these changes right now. The second phase of this process will begin on Sunday, February 22, 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 Sunday, March 15, 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 Monday, March 16, 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: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- netselect.old/debian/templates 2009-02-01 13:57:54.291175247 +0100 +++ netselect/debian/templates 2009-02-19 07:11:30.294521104 +0100 @@ -1,11 +1,20 @@ +# 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: netselect/install-setuid Type: boolean Default: false -_Description: Do you want netselect to be installed setuid root? +_Description: Should netselect be installed setuid root? Netselect can be installed with the set-user-id bit set, so that it will - run with the permissions of the 'root' user. Since netselect needs these - permissions to work properly, ordinary users cannot run it unless it is + run with the permissions of the "root" user. Since netselect needs these + permissions to work properly, unprivileged users cannot run it unless it is installed this way. . - Enabling this feature may be a security risk, so it is disabled by - default. If in doubt, it is suggested to leave it disabled. + Enabling this feature may be a security risk. If in doubt, it is + suggested to leave it disabled. --- netselect.old/debian/control 2009-02-01 13:57:54.291175247 +0100 +++ netselect/debian/control 2009-02-06 07:16:26.419179221 +0100 @@ -12,18 +12,21 @@ Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Suggests: netselect-apt -Description: Choose the fastest server automatically - This is netselect, an ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search - implementation of "ping." You give it a (possibly very long) list of - servers, and it chooses the fastest/closest one automatically. It's good - for finding the fastest ftp.debian.org mirror, the least laggy IRC server, - or the best Squid neighbour. +Description: speed tester for choosing a fast network server + This package provides a utility that can perform parallelized "ping" + tests on distant servers. + . + It can process a (possibly very long) list of servers, and choose the + fastest/closest one automatically. Package: netselect-apt Architecture: all Depends: wget, netselect (>= 0.3.ds1-1) Enhances: apt -Description: Choose the fastest Debian mirror with netselect - netselect-apt will choose the fastest Debian mirror by downloading the full - mirror list and uses netselect to find the best one. netselect-apt writes a - sources.list(5) file that can be used with apt(8). +Description: speed tester for choosing a fast Debian mirror + This package provides a utility that can choose the best Debian mirror + by downloading the full mirror list and using netselect to find the + fastest/closest one. + . + It can output a sources.list(5) file that can be used with package + management tools such as apt or aptitude.
