Re: Request for English debconf template review

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

Am Sonntag, den 02.09.2007, 19:58 +0200 schrieb Christian Perrier:
> Quoting Sven Joachim (svenjoac@gmx.de):
> > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > So the good news is that out of 5 translations (covering multiple language
> > > families) I've gotten in now for these debconf templates, all of them fit
> > > within the one-page limit except for German (heh).
> > 
> > It should be noted, however, that _none_ of them fits both the
> > introductory help text *and* the list of services to restart on one
> > 80x25 screen, which would be very important.  I just checked that with
> > podebconf-display-po (after receiving a mail on debian-l10n-german
> > from a user who complained about the German text being too long).
> 
> 
> Seconded. Steve, does the English template fit completely in a 80x25 screen?

As I'm the user who complained, how about the following:

=======================================================================
This upgrade of PAM requires a restart of services using it. Please
check the following, space-separated list carefully and delete services
that should not be restarted automatically. Be aware that most display
managers need a restart, so do *not restart* them when doing this
upgrade in an X session.

Some services cannot be restarted automatically (mostly screensavers).
Check README for details.
=======================================================================


The README can contain the names of the screensavers and some additional
information. I did stress "not restart", but I don't know if we actually
have a method of stressing text in debconf's various frond-ends.

	Thomas