On Saturday 28 July 2007 08:01, Christian Perrier wrote: > > +__Choices: security updates (from ${SEC_HOST}), volatile updates > > (from ${VOL_HOST}) > > That will make hard times to translators and I expect mistakes with > too long lines, which will even not be easy to catch by the > spellchecker because of the variable which length we don't control. There are only 3 simple 3 to actually translate and there is still a margin of 9 characters (and even more as the limit of 55 is not as hard as you make it out to be). If need be the "from " can be dropped. > I'm also not deeply fond of the long description which says that > "Debian has two update services": > - this brings branding again The services _are_ specifically Debian. Ubuntu does not use these generators at all. > - this hardcodes the number of services in templates So what? There are not any other services, are there? And those can be added when needed. The number matches the number of choices, which is also hardcoded.
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