Bug#649356: difficult short package description
Package: devd
Version: 8.2+ds2-10
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org
Dear Maintainers,
reviewing the German translation of the package description I
encountered the
comment of the translator that he had difficulties to translate the
short description (1).
From my point of view the problem are the four nouns without any glue.
Description: Device state change daemon
Looking just at the caption: Is the daemon in charge of initiating
device state
changes or is its task to act upon state changes?
The devd daemon provides a way to have userland programs run when certain
kernel events happen.
The long description answers this question and raises new
questions. What
would be a good package description? BTW: Although it has bad
educational
consequences focusing on common wording - the google fight stats prefer
user space to userland.
I would like to suggest a new version, recycling the upstream manpage (2):
Description: Daemon to act upon device state changes
The devd utility runs actions specified in a configuration file whenever a
device is added or removed.
Laying back, expecting the improved version from l10n-english ;-)
Kind regards,
Martin
1: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=88695
2: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devd&sektion=8
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The devd utility is a system daemon that runs in the background
all the
time. Whenever a device is added to or removed from the device tree,
devd will execute actions specified in devd.conf(5).
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