Re: Request for (late) review: DPN #7
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Sadly I didn't had the time to ask for a review of the latest issue of
> the Debian Project News before it was published. It seems that it was a
> bad idea - I heard about "coma explosions" ;)
s/coma/comma/, I think.
> When I promise to do better next time and ask in advance, would someone
> be so kind to take a look at it, so we can at least correct the version
> on the website? Thanks.
>
> The wml-version is already in Debians cvs
> (webwml/english/News/weekly/2008/07/index.wml), which can also be found
> on
> http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/News/weekly/2008/07/index.wml?root=webwml&view=markup
>
> Feel free to commit changes directly or to send be patches.
Highlights from the diff:
* Yes, a couple of continental commas, but I've added a couple too.
* All forms of -ware are uncountable; there's no such thing a
firmware, or multiple firmwares. Likewise "media" (in the
sense of CDs) - an individual CD isn't "a medium".
* It's A yew-ess-bee stick, not AN.
* Some tricky choices with tenses in reported mailings.
* It's either "traveler" (en_US) or "traveller" (en_GB).
* "Loose" is [lu:s], opposite of "tight", "lose" is [lu:z], opposite
of "win"
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
--- index.wml.old 2008-07-23 17:18:44.000000000 +0100
+++ index.wml.new 2008-07-23 18:03:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
Some of the topics covered in this issue:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updates to the Lenny release process</li>
- <li>Debian-installer to support loading of external firmwares</li>
+ <li>Debian-installer to support loading of external firmware</li>
<li>Best practice for debug packages</li>
<li>... and much more.</li>
</ul>
@@ -14,53 +14,52 @@
<p><strong>Updates to the Lenny release process</p></strong>
<p>Luk Claes sent a <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00005.html";>release update</a>
-regarding the upcoming stable release Debian 5.0 <q>Lenny</q>. An important part is, that starting with next
-week, the transition of packages from the unstable to the testing branch will be frozen to concentrate on:
-fixing the remaining bugs. He further reports on the different release goals, which he sees in good shape,
-but is a bit worried about the architecture qualification pages on wiki.debian.org, which still miss
+regarding the upcoming stable release Debian 5.0 <q>Lenny</q>. An important part is that starting with next
+week, the transition of packages from the unstable to the testing branch will be frozen to concentrate on
+fixing the remaining bugs. He further reports on the various release goals; he considers them in good shape,
+but is a bit worried about the architecture qualification pages on wiki.debian.org, which still lack
a lot of information. Porters should provide status information on these pages, so it's easier
-for the release team to inform themselves about the status of different hardware architectures.</p>
+for the release team to keep themselves informed about the status of different hardware architectures.</p>
<p>In related news Ana Guerrero <a href="http://ekaia.org/blog/2008/07/19/debian-packages-for-kde-41-koffice-alpha9-and-more/";>reported</a>
-about the status of KDE especially KDE4 related packages in the upcoming release of Debian.</p>
+about the status of KDE (and especially KDE4) related packages in the upcoming release of Debian.</p>
-<p><strong>Debian-installer to support loading of external firmwares</p></strong>
+<p><strong>Debian-installer to support loading of external firmware</p></strong>
<p>Joey Hess <a href="http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_firmware_loading/";>announced</a> a new feature of
-the Debian installer: On demand loading of firmwares. Since some drivers need to load such
-binary blobs to the device before they can operate but these firmwares are often non-free according
+the Debian installer: On demand loading of firmware. Since some drivers need to load such
+binary blobs to the device before they can operate but the firmware is often non-free according
to the <a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines";>Debian Free Software Guidelines</a>, some
devices could only be operated after Debian has been successfully installed and network access
has been configured by adding Debian's non-free section to the package sources. Which would fail,
-if the network driver itself needed to load a firmware to operate.</p>
+if the network driver itself needed to load firmware to operate.</p>
-<p>With the newly introduced feature, it is now possible to drop the firmware files on a separate medium,
-like an USB stick. The Debian-Installer will then automatically load the necessary files. He also noted,
+<p>With the newly introduced feature, it is now possible to drop the firmware files on separate media,
+such as a USB stick. The Debian-Installer will then automatically load the necessary files. He also noted
that the Debian-CD team <a href="http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/";>builds zip files and tarballs</a>
containing all the firmware that Debian ships in non-free.</p>
<p><strong>Best practice for debug packages</p></strong>
-<p>Theodore Tso <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00187.html";>wondered</a> about the best practice
-regarding debug packages, containing additional data to ease debugging of programs and libraries.
+<p>Theodore Tso <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00187.html";>wondered</a> about best practice
+for debug packages, which contain additional data to ease debugging of programs and libraries.
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00188.html";>Mike Hommey answered</a> that debug files should be
-installed at the non-debug files path preceded by /usr/lib/debug/ and, depending on the size of the debug data,
-split of in a separate package. Joerg Jaspert <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00205.html";>added</a>
+installed at the path of the non-debug files, preceded by /usr/lib/debug/ and (depending on the size of the debug data)
+split off in a separate package. Joerg Jaspert <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00205.html";>added</a>
that the priority of such debug packages should be extra and that they should be in the same section as the parent
package.</p>
-<p><strong>Call for help DebConf 8 website</p></strong>
+<p><strong>DebConf 8 website call for help</p></strong>
<p>Martin Ferrari <a href="http://blog.debconf.org/blog/debconf8/mf_website_help.dc";>called for help</a> for the website
-of the upcoming Debian Conference. A lot of information needed by travellers is missing. The most
-important thing he sees, is to recognise missing data, since it's difficult to guess what foreigners might
-need to know when you’re a local.</p>
+of the upcoming Debian Conference. A lot of information needed by travellers is missing. He sees identifying missing data
+as the most important task, since it's difficult to guess what foreigners might need to know when you’re a local.</p>
<p><strong>Debian release versioning</p></strong>
-<p>Martin Krafft <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00371.html";>proposed</a> to change
-the way Debian versions its releases. He proposed increasing the first number with each release,
-and the second one with every <q>point release</q> / <q>r-release</q> of the stable branch only including fixed packages, while
+<p>Martin Krafft <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00371.html";>proposed</a> changing
+the way Debian versions its releases. He proposed increasing the first number with each release
+and the second one with every <q>point release</q>/<q>r-release</q> of the stable branch only including fixed packages, while
new releases of the stable release adding new features (like the upcoming <q>Etch and a half</q>) should
get a five as second number to show the <q>half</q> update. Lars Wirzenius
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00395.html";>reminded</a> that Debian introduced the current
-versioning scheme because CD vendors feared old boxes would stay in the shelves after a point release. Others
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00395.html";>reminded</a> people that Debian introduced the current
+versioning scheme because CD vendors feared old boxes would stay on the shelves after a point release. Others
preferred a <q>classic two dot</q> versioning scheme, where the first number gets increased with every new major release,
the third one with <q>bug fix</q> releases and the second one with releases adding new features.</p>
@@ -68,19 +67,19 @@
<p>A recently published <a href="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/justin/packagemanagersecurity/attacks-on-package-managers.html";>study</a>
which described several attack vectors against Linux systems using their package management has recently caused
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2008/07/msg00054.html";>some</a>
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00321.html";>discussion</a>. While the study was generally judged to be
-<q>oversensationalized attention-grabbing</q> the consensus was, that one weak point does remain: a potential attacker
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00321.html";>discussion</a>. While the study was generally judged to be
+<q>oversensationalized attention-grabbing</q> the consensus was that one weak point does remain: a potential attacker
could manipulate the domain name system and redirect security.debian.org, source of security updates for Debian,
-to an outdated copy of that server. Currently plans are drafted to add a signed time stamp to prevent that kind of
-attacks.</p>
+to an outdated copy of that server. Plans are being drafted to add a signed time stamp to prevent this kind of
+attack.</p>
<p><strong>Other news</strong></p>
<p>Steve McIntyre <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00004.html";>sent bits from the DPL</a>.
-Beside mentioning several personnel changes already reported in last issues of the Debian Project News, he also
-informs about his intention to intense the cooperation between Debian and its derivatives. He already contacted several
+Besides mentioning several personnel changes already reported in past issues of the Debian Project News, he also
+announced his intention to improve cooperation between Debian and its derivatives. He has already contacted several
derivatives, namely Linspire, Xandros and Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Obey Arthur Liu <a href="http://www.milliways.fr/2008/07/09/state-of-the-aptitude-week-7/";>gave another status report</a>
@@ -88,9 +87,9 @@
present, he lists several missing features he would like to add.</p>
<p>Neil Williams <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00003.html";>reported</a>
-about the status of Emdebian (for the ARM architecture).</p>
+on the status of Emdebian (for the ARM architecture).</p>
-<p>Olivier Berger informed us, that videos from two French speeches from the 9th Libre
+<p>Olivier Berger informed us that videos from two French speeches from the 9th Libre
Software Meeting by Debian Developer Lucas Nussbaum
on the topics
<a href="http://2008.rmll.info/Making-a-first-contribution-to.html";>Why and how to make a first contribution to Debian</a>
@@ -102,8 +101,8 @@
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2008/07/msg00078.html";>new translations</a> of the Debian reference
card.</p>
-<p>Bastian Venthur <a href="http://blog.venthur.de/2008/07/19/rng-10-in-unstable/";>released version 1.0 of reportbug-ng</a>
-a graphical front end to report bugs to the Debian bug tracking system.</p>
+<p>Bastian Venthur <a href="http://blog.venthur.de/2008/07/19/rng-10-in-unstable/";>released version 1.0 of reportbug-ng</a>,
+a graphical front end for reporting bugs to the Debian bug tracking system.</p>
<p>Starting with the next release, <a href="http://packages.debian.org/rsyslog";>rsyslog</a> will be the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/07/msg00259.html";>preferred</a> system logging daemon,
@@ -111,24 +110,24 @@
<p>Patrick Schoenfeld <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg01050.html";>called for testers of the mantis package</a>.</p>
-<p>Christian Perrier <a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/07/15#anti-l10n-cabal";>kindly asks package maintainers</a> changing
+<p>Christian Perrier <a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/07/15#anti-l10n-cabal";>kindly asked package maintainers</a> changing
debconf templates, which are used to ask questions during the configuration of a package, to coordinate with translators.</p>
-<p>Thijs Kinkhorst <a href="http://loeki.tv/log/archives/86-msttcorefonts-renamed-and-losing-relevance.html";>noted</a>, that he renamed
+<p>Thijs Kinkhorst <a href="http://loeki.tv/log/archives/86-msttcorefonts-renamed-and-losing-relevance.html";>noted</a> that he has renamed
the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/msttcorefonts";>msttcorefonts</a> package to
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/ttf-mscorefonts-installer";> ttf-mscorefonts-installer</a>.
-He also notes, that they continue to
-<a href="http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=ttf-liberation";>loose relevance</a>,
+He also noted that they continue to
+<a href="http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=ttf-liberation";>lose relevance</a>,
since it's often possible to replace them them with the fonts supplied by the
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/ttf-liberation";>ttf-liberation</a> package.</p>
<p><strong>Important Debian Security Advisories</strong></p>
-<p>Debian's Security Team released among others advisories for the packages
+<p>Debian's Security Team released, among others, advisories for the packages
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1603";>bind9</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1604";>bind8</a>,
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1605";>DNS vulnerability through glibc</a>,
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1605";>glibc</a> (a DNS vulnerability),
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606";>poppler</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1607";>Iceweasel</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1608";>MySQL</a>,
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