please indicate where messages in debconf dialogue are worth a bug reportx
Dear English language team,
recently, I updated German messages in the debconf message catalogue
of postfix. I found that the set of original messages has flaws in
English language.
Would you go through my criticism and/or replacement suggestions and mark
a) messages where I am wrong (I am no native English speaker)
b) erroneous messages worth a formal bug report
Please set my mail address in the cc:
Best regards
Markus
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REMARKS
Markup of keys, values, etc seems inconsistent through the
file. E.g. single quotation marks at least when configuration
parameters are mentioned for the first time.
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:9001
msgid "Correct retry entry in master.cf for upgrade?"
s/Correct retry entry in/Correct item 'retry' in
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:10001
msgid "Correct tlsmgr entry in master.cf for upgrade?"
s/Correct tlsmgr entry in/Correct item 'tlsmgr' in
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:16001
msgid ""
"The relayhost parameter specifies the default host to send mail to when no "
"entry is matched in the optional transport(5) table. When no relay host is "
"given, mail is routed directly to the destination."
s/The relayhost parameter/The 'relayhost' parameter
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:24001
msgid "Root and postmaster mail recipient:"
s/Root and postmaster mail recipient/recipient for 'root' and 'postmaster'
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#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:2001
msgid ""
"Failure to do this may result in deferred or bounced mail after the "
"upgrade. Accept this option to set smtpd_relay_restrictions equal to "
"smtpd_recipient_restrictions."
Presumably, mails in general are affected. Thus the plural "mails"
would be correct:
s/mail/mails
Please check this throughout the pot-file:
msgid "Please choose whether you want to use procmail to deliver local mailS."
msgid ""
"Note that if you use procmail to deliver mailS system-wide, you should set up "
"an alias that forwards mailS for root to a real user."
msgid ""
"Please specify the network blocks for which this host should relay mailS. The "
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#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:3001
msgid ""
"This upgrade of postfix changes some default values in the configuration. As "
"part of this upgrade, the following will be changed: (1) chrooted components "
"will be changed from '-' to 'y' in master.cf, and (2) myhostname will be set "
"to a fully-qualified domain name if it is not already such. The install "
"will be aborted if you do not allow the change."
Several times, there are double spaces in the document. Here within
"such. This install"
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SUGGESTIONS
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:1001
msgid ""
"Failure to fix this will result in a broken mailer. Decline this option to "
"abort the upgrade, giving you the opportunity to add this configuration "
"yourself. Accept this option to automatically set mydomain based on the FQDN "
"of the machine."
s/to add this configuration yourself/to configure this item yourself
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:9001
msgid ""
"Failure to fix this will result in a broken mailer. Decline this option to "
"abort the upgrade, giving you the opportunity to add this configuration "
"yourself. Accept this option to automatically make master.cf compatible with "
"Postfix 2.4 in this respect."
s/to add this configuration yourself/to add this configuration item yourself
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:10001
msgid ""
"Failure to fix this will result in a broken mailer. Decline this option to "
"abort the upgrade, giving you the opportunity to add this configuration "
"yourself. Accept this option to automatically make master.cf compatible with "
"Postfix 2.2 in this respect."
s/to add this configuration yourself/to edit this configuration item yourself
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:4001
msgid "Update master.cf for merged lmtp/smtp binary?"
Alternative:
Update master.cf for newer postfix versions which are able of conveying
mails in accordance with both protocols?
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:4001
msgid ""
"This upgrade of postfix drops the \"lmtp\" symlink, and your configuration "
"(master.cf) refers to it: lmtp was merged into smtp long ago. The install "
"will be aborted if you do not allow the change."
s
/This upgrade of postfix drops the \"lmtp\" symlink, and your configuration (master.cf) refers to it
/This upgrade of postfix drops the symbolic link to a postfix binary for lmtp but your configuration file master.cf still refers to it
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:11001
msgid "Please choose whether you want to keep that choice anyway."
s/ to keep that choice anyway / to accept your input nevertheless
#. Type: select
#. Description
#: ../templates:12002
msgid "General type of mail configuration:"
msgstr "Allgemeine Art der Konfiguration:"
Within the context of 'postfix', omit the word mail
s/type of mail configuration/type of configuration
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:14001
msgid "System mail name:"
s/System mail name:/The system's mail name
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:14001
msgid ""
"The \"mail name\" is the domain name used to \"qualify\" _ALL_ mail "
"addresses without a domain name. This includes mail to and from <root>: "
"please do not make your machine send out mail from root@example.org unless "
"root@example.org has told you to."
Does debconf really use another font for words between underscores? Is it
necessaray to stress the word "ALL" by using capital letters?
Usage of 'larger than' and 'smaller than' may confuse. consider usage
of single quotation marks.
Do not make fun of debconf users. The joke seems quite trivial to me:
Do not make your machine send out mail from root@example.org unless
root@example.org has told you.
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:16001
msgid "SMTP relay host (blank for none):"
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:22001
msgid ""
"If this host is a smarthost for a block of machines, you need to specify the "
"netblocks here, or mail will be rejected rather than relayed."
In case SMTP relay host and smarthost are the same machine, please
mention it at least once.
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:16001
msgid ""
"Please specify a domain, host, host:port, [address] or [address]:port. Use "
"the form [destination] to turn off MX lookups. Leave this blank for no relay "
"host."
s
/Please specify a domain, host, host:port, [address] or [address]:port. Use the form [destination] to turn off MX lookups./
/Please specify a domain, hostname, hostname:port, [IP address] or [IP address]:port. Use the bracketed form [IP address] to avoid MX lookups.
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:19001
msgid ""
"Please choose the character that will be used to define a local address "
"extension."
s
/Please choose the character that will be used to define a local address extensions
/Please choose a character used as recipient delimiter that will indicate a local address extensions
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../templates:21001
msgid ""
"If synchronous updates are forced, then mail is processed more slowly. If "
"not forced, then there is a remote chance of losing some mail if the system "
"crashes at an inopportune time, and you are not using a journaled filesystem "
"(such as ext3)."
s/there is a remote chance/ there is a slight chance/
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:23001
msgid ""
"Please specify the limit that Postfix should place on mailbox files to "
"prevent runaway software errors. A value of zero (0) means no limit. The "
"upstream default is 51200000."
Alternative:
Please specify the limit that Postfix should place on mailbox files
(mbox-formatted files) to prevent data losses caused by software
errors. A value of zero (0) means no limit. The authors of postfix set
51200000 as default.
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:24001
msgid "Mail is not delivered to external delivery agents as root."
"as root" is highly confusing because one might think that the postfix
daemon is run by root. Apparently, the phrase refers to mails that
root shall recieve. Therefore
s
/Mail is not delivered to external delivery agents as root.
/Mails for 'root' will not be passed to external delivery agents.
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