Re: Bug#469256: kexec-tools: Please use a boolean question with debconf
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 10:48 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle@debian.org):
> > Quoting Justin B Rye (jbr@edlug.org.uk):
> >
> >
> > > How about:
> > >
> > > Should kexec-tools handle reboots? If you accept this option,
> > > invocations of "shutdown -r" will trigger a restart into a kernel
> > > loaded by kexec instead of going through the full system bootloader
> > > process.
> >
> >
> > Which would of course turn to:
> >
> > _Description: Should kexec-tools handle reboots?
> > If you accept this option, invocations of 'shutdown -r' will trigger
> > a restart into a kernel loaded by kexec instead of going through the
> > full system bootloader process.
>
>
> Khalid, what's the status of this suggestion/rewrite of the debconf
> template ?
>
> Once you adopt the new template, you should indeed add to your package
> tree the pending debconf l10n translations (#469960, #470499,
> #470921), then run "debconf-updatepo" and then use the
> "podebconf-report-po" utility to call for translation updates, leaving
> about 10 days to translators to cope with updates.
>
> Actually, I even suggest using
> "podebconf-report-po --call --languageteam" so that a call for new
> translations is sent to debian-i18n and the language teams are
> notified of the needed changes (not only translators)
>
> Could you please keep me posted about this? Without news, I'll start
> an "l10n NMU" process..
>
>
Hi Christian,
I am getting back to this again now. I just sent another proposal out.
Hopefully we are starting to converge on the right wording for the
description.
I appreciate the guidance you have provided on this since this is the
first time I am dealing with debconf setup on a package.
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Khalid Aziz
khalid@debian.org
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