Re: English review of the templates of MiniUPnPd 1.7-4
Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Template: miniupnpd/start_daemon
> Type: boolean
> Default: false
> _Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon?
Right now or regularly?
_Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon at boot?
> Select if the MiniUPnP daemon should started automatically at boot time.
^^
Active or passive?
Please choose whether the MiniUPnP daemon should start automatically at
boot time.
> Template: miniupnpd/listen
> Type: string
> _Description: IP address to listen for UPnP queries on your LAN:
If it's listening on an IP address on my LAN, that's (the horrible)
"IP address to listen for UPnP queries *on* on your LAN". We could
say it's listening "at" that address, but it's not much better. How
about:
_Description: LAN IP address to listen for UPnP queries on:
> The MiniUPnP daemon will listen for requests on your local network. Please
> enter the IP address it should listen on.
Is there any particular reason why this and the next template give
different explanations of what MiniUPNPd does? We could make it:
The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address, then
maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
.
Please specify the local IP address it should listen on.
Less work for the translators, as long as I'm getting that description
right.
> Template: miniupnpd/iface
> Type: string
> _Description: External WAN network interface where to open ports:
I suppose there are prescriptive grammarians who'd claim you have to
say s/where/on which/, but the normal English is
_Description: External WAN network interface to open ports on:
> The MiniUPnP daemon will listen on a specific IP address on your LAN, then it
> will open ports on your WAN interface. Enter the name of your WAN network
> interface on which the MiniUPnP daemon will do the port forwarding.
The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address, then
maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
.
Please specify the name of the external network interface it should set
up port forwarding on.
(In the process I seem more or less accidentally to have eliminated the
word "your".)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru miniupnpd-1.7.orig/debian/miniupnpd.templates miniupnpd-1.7/debian/miniupnpd.templates
--- miniupnpd-1.7.orig/debian/miniupnpd.templates 2012-08-29 06:55:23.000000000 +0100
+++ miniupnpd-1.7/debian/miniupnpd.templates 2012-08-29 10:56:17.100411843 +0100
@@ -2,17 +2,22 @@
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon?
- Select if the MiniUPnP daemon should started automatically at boot time.
+ Please choose whether the MiniUPnP daemon should start automatically at
+ boot time.
Template: miniupnpd/listen
Type: string
-_Description: IP address to listen for UPnP queries on your LAN:
- The MiniUPnP daemon will listen for requests on your local network. Please
- enter the IP address it should listen on.
+_Description: LAN IP address to listen for UPnP queries on:
+ The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address, then
+ maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
+ .
+ Please specify the local IP address it should listen on.
Template: miniupnpd/iface
Type: string
-_Description: External WAN network interface where to open ports:
- The MiniUPnP daemon will listen on a specific IP address on your LAN, then it
- will open ports on your WAN interface. Enter the name of your WAN network
- interface on which the MiniUPnP daemon will do the port forwarding.
+_Description: External WAN network interface to open ports on:
+ The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address, then
+ maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
+ .
+ Please specify the name of the external network interface it should set
+ up port forwarding on.
Template: miniupnpd/start_daemon
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon?
Please choose whether the MiniUPnP daemon should start automatically at
boot time.
Template: miniupnpd/listen
Type: string
_Description: LAN IP address to listen for UPnP queries on:
The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address, then
maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
.
Please specify the local IP address it should listen on.
Template: miniupnpd/iface
Type: string
_Description: External WAN network interface to open ports on:
The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address, then
maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
.
Please specify the name of the external network interface it should set
up port forwarding on.
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