Justin and MJ probably have better wording suggestions than I would
have so I'll keep mine as general suggestion with one goal: *shorten
this down*.
Too long debconf templates raise a few concerns for me:
- being long, they're likely to not be read entirely...:)
- they are likely to be split on two screens on 80x25 terminals
- their translations are even more likely to be too long for such terminals
> Template: libpam0g/restart-services
> Type: string
> _Description: Services to restart for PAM library upgrade:
> Most PAM-using services that are running at the time of upgrade must be
"that are currently running" would be shorter (probably a little bit
less precise but that doesn't matter that much)
> restarted before they can use PAM modules built against this new version
> of libpam.
"they can use the new PAM modules" could be enough.....
> .
> Please check the following list of services detected for restart and
> correct it if needed. The services are listed by the names of the init
> scripts in /etc/init.d and must be separated by spaces. To avoid
> restarting any services at this time, use an empty list.
"space-separated list of services (named after their init script)"
I'd drop the sentence about an empty string not restarting anything:
that should be obvious to anyone.
> .
> Among the services that require restarting are the display managers kdm,
> wdm, and xdm. If you are upgrading from within an X session started with
> one of these display managers, restarting that service will terminate your
> X session. It is recommended that you remove this service from the
> list here and restart it later at your convenience.
> .
> Other services that use PAM but cannot be restarted for you include
> xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, and xlockmore. You will not be able to
> authenticate to these services until you restart them manually.
Maybe something like "Some other services such as ...... cannot be
restarted automatically and will nee you to restart them manually"
>
> Template: libpam0g/restart-failed
> Type: error
> _Description: Failure restarting some services for PAM upgrade
> The following services could not be restarted for the PAM library upgrade:
> .
> ${services}
> .
> You will need to start these manually by running
> '/etc/init.d/<service> start'.
Fine by me. I suggest adding:
#flag:translate!:3
to avoid ${services} to be translatable (and likely to be translated...:-))
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