Please find, for review, the debconf templates and packages descriptions for the portmap source package.
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Rationale:
--- ../portmap.old/debian/templates 2007-08-27 15:13:18.610015498 +0200
+++ debian/templates 2007-08-28 23:17:28.103514248 +0200
@@ -2,14 +2,13 @@
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Should portmap be bound to the loopback address?
- Portmap by default listens to all IP addresses. However, if you are
- not providing network RPC services to remote clients (you are if you are
- setting up a NFS or NIS server) you can safely bind it to the loopback
- IP address (127.0.0.1)
+ By default, portmap listens to all IP addresses. However, if this
+ machine does not provide network RPC services to remote clients, you
+ can safely bind it to the loopback IP address (127.0.0.1).
"By default,...." seems better wording to me
Remove "you are" stuff in favor of neutral wording ("this
machine"). After all, the services are provided by the machine, not
the user..:-)
Remove the confusing mention of NFS or NIS servers.
.
This will allow RPC local services (like FAM) to work properly, while
- preventing remote systems from accessing your RPC services.
+ preventing remote systems from accessing the RPC services.
Same rationale than above about who does provide the services
.
- You can also change this configuration by editing the OPTIONS
- line in the /etc/default/portmap file. If you just don't specify
- the -i option it will bind to all interfaces.
+ This configuration can be changed by editing the OPTIONS
+ line in the /etc/default/portmap file and adapt the use of the -i option
+ to your needs.
More general wording to point the user to "-i"
--- ../portmap.old/debian/control 2007-08-27 15:13:18.610015498 +0200
+++ debian/control 2007-08-28 23:13:15.116193737 +0200
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 1.3-9)
Replaces: netbase (<< 4.00)
-Description: The RPC portmapper
+Description: RPC port mapper
Avoid the use of leading articles in packages descriptions
portmap is "something that maps", hence a mapper. What it does map are
ports....hence breking this in two words.
Portmap is a server that converts RPC (Remote Procedure Call) program
- numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order
+ numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order
Remove double spaces
Template: portmap/loopback Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Should portmap be bound to the loopback address? By default, portmap listens to all IP addresses. However, if this machine does not provide network RPC services to remote clients, you can safely bind it to the loopback IP address (127.0.0.1). . This will allow RPC local services (like FAM) to work properly, while preventing remote systems from accessing the RPC services. . This configuration can be changed by editing the OPTIONS line in the /etc/default/portmap file and adapt the use of the -i option to your needs.
--- ../portmap.old/debian/templates 2007-08-27 15:13:18.610015498 +0200
+++ debian/templates 2007-08-28 23:17:28.103514248 +0200
@@ -2,14 +2,13 @@
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Should portmap be bound to the loopback address?
- Portmap by default listens to all IP addresses. However, if you are
- not providing network RPC services to remote clients (you are if you are
- setting up a NFS or NIS server) you can safely bind it to the loopback
- IP address (127.0.0.1)
+ By default, portmap listens to all IP addresses. However, if this
+ machine does not provide network RPC services to remote clients, you
+ can safely bind it to the loopback IP address (127.0.0.1).
.
This will allow RPC local services (like FAM) to work properly, while
- preventing remote systems from accessing your RPC services.
+ preventing remote systems from accessing the RPC services.
.
- You can also change this configuration by editing the OPTIONS
- line in the /etc/default/portmap file. If you just don't specify
- the -i option it will bind to all interfaces.
+ This configuration can be changed by editing the OPTIONS
+ line in the /etc/default/portmap file and adapt the use of the -i option
+ to your needs.
--- ../portmap.old/debian/control 2007-08-27 15:13:18.610015498 +0200
+++ debian/control 2007-08-28 23:13:15.116193737 +0200
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 1.3-9)
Replaces: netbase (<< 4.00)
-Description: The RPC portmapper
+Description: RPC port mapper
Portmap is a server that converts RPC (Remote Procedure Call) program
- numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order
+ numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order
to make RPC calls.
.
Services that use RPC include NFS and NIS.
Source: portmap
Section: net
Priority: standard
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
Uploaders: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
Standards-Version: 3.7.2
Build-Depends: libwrap-dev, debhelper (>= 5)
Package: portmap
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 1.3-9)
Replaces: netbase (<< 4.00)
Description: RPC port mapper
Portmap is a server that converts RPC (Remote Procedure Call) program
numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order
to make RPC calls.
.
Services that use RPC include NFS and NIS.
.
Homepage: http://neil.brown.name/portmap/
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