Re: fixed (I hope) example of a modified security page

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 12:49:03PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > One solution is not point to an exact version, but the directory it will be > in and state that the version should be greater than x. For the case above > that would be: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/net>

Re: Problems with localized Pages

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 12:25:12PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > Only standard items are translated automatically. For example, 'Date > Reported', 'Affected Packages', etc. As stated near the end, it is NOT the > responsibility of the maintainers of the security pages to translate any > other tex

Re: fixed (I hope) example of a modified security page

1999-02-13 Thread gecko
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 11:43:04AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > Tell me if you have any thoughts on how to implement this: what I'd really > like to see is the ability to say somthing like type=deb package=netstd version=3.07> and have the build process check > incoming, proposed-updates, and sta

Re: fixed (I hope) example of a modified security page

1999-02-13 Thread gecko
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:30:10AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > Below is a modified version of 19990104.wml which includes the > English and Croatian text. Note how the definition of 'Source' > uses a tag so it gets translated for free from its (future) > definition in the template file. > Jay

Re: [treacy@debian.org: Re: release info]

1999-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:06:01PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > I'll be willing to do some investigation on what exactly was > > in some of these releases. I only don't know where to find info about > > packages in buzz and rex - can someone point me to some archive of it, > > or at least send

Re: [treacy@debian.org: Re: release info]

1999-02-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > James, you said bring it up :) My reply is down below. > Thanks. I've added Brian White for reasons that will become clear below. > On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:21:04PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > Yesterday while I was transla

Re: fixed (I hope) example of a modified security page

1999-02-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 11:43:04AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:30:10AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > href=ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/net/netstd_3.07.orig.tar.gz>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/net/netstd_3.07.orig

[treacy@debian.org: Re: release info]

1999-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
James, you said bring it up :) My reply is down below. - Forwarded message from "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:54:23 +0100 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:51:10 -0500 From: "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Josi

Re: Problems with localized Pages

1999-02-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 10:37:45AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > I'm a little leery of this. I'm not sure that we want automatic > translations of things that could be serious issues. Sometimes the > instructions can get fairly complicated and I wouldn't want to run to > risk of bablefish-ing th

Re: fixed (I hope) example of a modified security page

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
Ok. I didn't see this until after I wrote the other message. This is looking good. On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:30:10AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > href=ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/net/netstd_3.07.orig.tar.gz>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/net/nets

Re: Problems with localized Pages

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 12:02:57AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > I haven't had a chance to look at how the security pages were set up, but > most parts of the security pages can be set up for automatic translation, > similar to how the template files are done. The textual parts of the page, > giv

fixed (I hope) example of a modified security page

1999-02-13 Thread James A. Treacy
Below is a modified version of 19990104.wml which includes the English and Croatian text. Note how the definition of 'Source' uses a tag so it gets translated for free from its (future) definition in the template file. Jay Treacy netstd 4 Jan 1999 netstd [EN:buffer overflows in bootpd an

example of a modified security page

1999-02-13 Thread James A. Treacy
Below is a modified version of 19990104.wml which includes the English and Croatian text. Note how the definition of 'Source' uses a tag so it gets translated for free from its (future) definition in the template file. Jay Treacy begin 19990104.wml netstd

updates to the security pages and translations

1999-02-13 Thread James A. Treacy
In order to keep any translations of the security pages up to date, it is best if all the translations are in one file. This way any changes will be seen by all translations immediately - even if it means that some of the text is in English. I am thus proposing the following. I'd appreciate feedba

Re: Problems with localized Pages

1999-02-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 07:27:28PM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: > Marko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - I think the Security-page /security/index.html should only be > > localized if the translators can update it often. > > Could there be some automatic solution? For example contact > neg

Re: Problems with localized Pages

1999-02-13 Thread Guy Maor
Marko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - I think the Security-page /security/index.html should only be > localized if the translators can update it often. Could there be some automatic solution? For example contact negotiation is turned off (and English is presented) when the English page