Please find, for review, the debconf templates and packages descriptions for the vsftpd source package.
This review will last from Tuesday, March 03, 2009 to Friday, March 13, 2009.
Please send reviews as unified diffs (diff -u) against the original
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Finally, the reviewed templates will be sent to the package maintainer
as a bug report, and a mail will be sent to this list with "[BTS]" as
a subject tag.
Rationale:
--- vsftpd.old/debian/vsftpd.templates 2009-02-22 08:00:47.293880705 +0100
+++ vsftpd/debian/vsftpd.templates 2009-02-27 07:52:46.863026721 +0100
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
Template: vsftpd/username
Type: string
-_Default: ftp
-_Description: Dedicated system account for ftp:
- It is required that a unique account is defined which the ftp server can
- use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
+Default: ftp
This is non translatable
+_Description: Dedicated system account for the vsftpd FTP daemon:
+ The FTP server must use a dedicated account for its operation so that
+ the system's security is not compromized by running it with the root
+ account privileges.
+ .
+ Please choose that account's username.
Be more specific in the synopsis about what we're talking about. That
prompt might come in the middle of a big upgrade/install and the user
might be unaware this is about the vsftpd FTP daemon.
FTP is capitalized as this is a protocol name.
Template: vsftpd/directory
Type: string
-_Default: /srv/ftp
-_Description: Directory for ftp root?
- Please specify the directory that should serve as the ftp root.
+Default: /srv/ftp
Non translatable
+_Description: FTP root directory:
No interrogative form in select templates
+ Please specify the directory that will be used as root for the
+ FTP server.
"that should serve as ftp root" seems incorrect and imprecise for me.
--- vsftpd.old/debian/control 2009-02-22 08:00:47.293880705 +0100
+++ vsftpd/debian/control 2009-02-27 07:54:34.712035284 +0100
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
Conflicts: ftp-server
Replaces: ftp-server
Provides: ftp-server
-Description: The Very Secure FTP Daemon
- A lightweight, efficient FTP server written from the ground up with
- security in mind.
+Description: security-efficient FTP daemon
avoid over-capitalization and give facts: that server is targeted at security
+ This package provides a lightweight, efficient FTP server written from
+ scratch with security in mind ("vsftp" stands for "The Very Secure FTP Daemon").
"This package provides" helps having a complete sentence....and move
the name explanation there...
.
- vsftpd supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP, PAM authentication,
+ It supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP access, PAM authentication,
bandwidth limiting, and the Linux sendfile() facility.
Avoid leading lowercase.
--
Template: vsftpd/username Type: string Default: ftp _Description: Dedicated system account for the vsftpd FTP daemon: The FTP server must use a dedicated account for its operation so that the system's security is not compromized by running it with the root account privileges. . Please choose that account's username. Template: vsftpd/directory Type: string Default: /srv/ftp _Description: FTP root directory: Please specify the directory that will be used as root for the FTP server.
--- vsftpd.old/debian/vsftpd.templates 2009-02-22 08:00:47.293880705 +0100
+++ vsftpd/debian/vsftpd.templates 2009-03-03 22:07:44.272368962 +0100
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
Template: vsftpd/username
Type: string
-_Default: ftp
-_Description: Dedicated system account for ftp:
- It is required that a unique account is defined which the ftp server can
- use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
+Default: ftp
+_Description: Dedicated system account for the vsftpd FTP daemon:
+ The FTP server must use a dedicated account for its operation so that
+ the system's security is not compromized by running it with the root
+ account privileges.
+ .
+ Please choose that account's username.
Template: vsftpd/directory
Type: string
-_Default: /srv/ftp
-_Description: Directory for ftp root?
- Please specify the directory that should serve as the ftp root.
+Default: /srv/ftp
+_Description: FTP root directory:
+ Please specify the directory that will be used as root for the
+ FTP server.
--- vsftpd.old/debian/control 2009-02-22 08:00:47.293880705 +0100
+++ vsftpd/debian/control 2009-02-27 07:54:34.712035284 +0100
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
Conflicts: ftp-server
Replaces: ftp-server
Provides: ftp-server
-Description: The Very Secure FTP Daemon
- A lightweight, efficient FTP server written from the ground up with
- security in mind.
+Description: security-efficient FTP daemon
+ This package provides a lightweight, efficient FTP server written from
+ scratch with security in mind ("vsftp" stands for "The Very Secure FTP Daemon").
.
- vsftpd supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP, PAM authentication,
+ It supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP access, PAM authentication,
bandwidth limiting, and the Linux sendfile() facility.
Source: vsftpd
Section: net
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), quilt, libcap2-dev [!kfreebsd-amd64 !kfreebsd-i386 !hurd-i386], libpam0g-dev, libssl-dev, libwrap0-dev, po-debconf
Standards-Version: 3.8.0
Homepage: http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.net/?p=debian/vsftpd.git
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.net/git/debian/vsftpd.git
Package: vsftpd
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser, libpam-modules, netbase
Recommends: logrotate
Conflicts: ftp-server
Replaces: ftp-server
Provides: ftp-server
Description: security-efficient FTP daemon
This package provides a lightweight, efficient FTP server written from
scratch with security in mind ("vsftp" stands for "The Very Secure FTP Daemon").
.
It supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP access, PAM authentication,
bandwidth limiting, and the Linux sendfile() facility.
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