Bug#515168: mserv: [debconf_rewrite] Debconf templates and debian/control review
Package: mserv
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Debian maintainer,
On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, I notified you of the beginning of a review process
concerning debconf templates for mserv.
The debian-l10n-english contributors have now reviewed these templates,
and the proposed changes are attached to this bug report.
Please review the suggested changes are suggested, and if you have any
objections, let me know in the next 3 days.
Please try to avoid uploading mserv with these changes right now.
The second phase of this process will begin on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, when I will
coordinate updates to translations of debconf templates.
The existing translators will be notified of the changes: they will
receive an updated PO file for their language.
Simultaneously, a general call for new translations will be sent to
the debian-i18n mailing list.
Both these calls for translations will request updates to be sent as
individual bug reports. That will probably trigger a lot of bug
reports against your package, but these should be easier to deal with.
The call for translation updates and new translations will run until
about Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or changed
debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of
course, other changes are safe.
Please note that this is an approximative delay, which depends on my
own availability to process this work and is influenced by the fact
that I simultaneously work on many packages.
Around Wednesday, March 11, 2009, I will contact you again and will send a final patch
summarizing all the updates (changes to debconf templates,
updates to debconf translations and new debconf translations).
Again, thanks for your attention and cooperation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- mserv.old/debian/mserv.templates 2009-01-27 12:03:15.867022284 +0100
+++ mserv/debian/mserv.templates 2009-02-14 08:46:21.511869567 +0100
@@ -1,23 +1,34 @@
+# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
+# team
+#
+# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
+# debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org for advice.
+#
+# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
+# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
+
Template: mserv/mp3_location
Type: string
-_Description: Please enter the path to the root of your mp3 archive.
- Mserv needs to know where your mp3 files are located so that it can index
- them. The files don't need to be arranged in any special way. If you
- don't have any mp3s right now you can just enter anything. In that case
- mserv will not be able to play music. If you get mp3s in the future you
- can run 'dpkg-reconfigure mserv' to show mserv where they are.
+_Description: Path to the root of the music archive:
+ Mserv needs to know where its music files are located so that it can
+ index them. The files don't need to be arranged in any special way.
+ .
+ If no music files are available right now, just enter any directory name.
+ In that case, mserv will not be able to play music. To index new music
+ files in the future, you can run "dpkg-reconfigure mserv" to inform the
+ program of their location.
Template: mserv/path_invalid
Type: boolean
Default: false
-_Description: This path does not exist. Would you like to use it anyway?
+_Description: Really use unreadable directory?
+ Mserv cannot access the directory path you specified. Please choose whether
+ you want to use that path anyway.
Template: mserv/confirm_update
Type: boolean
Default: false
-_Description: Are you sure you want to do this?
- Reconfiguring the location of the mp3 archive when a trackinfo database
- already exists is dangerous. If you proceed with this configuration you
- risk losing your track info database (any ratings, last play times etc.).
- If you know what you are doing or don't care about losing the track info
- database, feel free to continue.
+_Description: Really change the music archive location?
+ By reconfiguring the location of the music archive when a
+ trackinfo database already exists, you risk losing the track info
+ database (ratings, last play times etc.).
--- mserv.old/debian/control 2009-01-27 12:03:15.867022284 +0100
+++ mserv/debian/control 2009-02-01 14:35:43.559175634 +0100
@@ -4,49 +4,41 @@
Maintainer: Nick Estes <debian@nickstoys.com>
Build-Depends: sharutils, debhelper (>= 4.1.51), cdbs
Standards-Version: 3.6.1
+Homepage: http://www.mserv.org
Package: mserv
Architecture: any
Depends: adduser, debconf | debconf-2.0, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
Recommends: mpg321 | mpg123 | vorbis-tools | music123 | sox
-Description: local centralised multiuser music server
- Mserv is a music server designed to do a number of things better than most
- systems designed to play mp3s or oggs:
+Description: centralized multiuser music environment - server
+ Mserv is a local network jukebox server. It features:
.
- - Supports any type of client using standard TCP protocol
- - Stores information on mp3 (bitrate, duration, name, author, genre, date
- produced, last play date) in on-disk database.
- - Stores rating information supplied by the user (awful, bad, neutral,
- good, superb).
- - Has a comprehensive queuing system (track, album, random album, etc)
- - Random play chooses the songs that people currently on-line want to hear
- using their ratings of the songs.
- - Search facilities, status information, statistics, etc.
- - User management facilities, four levels of users, encrypted passwords.
- - Talker style communication (say, emote etc.)
- - Play, next, pause, stop, repeat, volume, bass, treble settings.
- - On-line and off-line track information editing.
- - Advanced filter facilities (e.g. 'john=superb', '!good', 'year>1990',
- 'duration<180', 'genre=pop', 'john=good|fred=unheard' etc.)
- - Built-in telnet client (see manual).
- - Library interface, no need to write TCP code.
- - Comes with command line shell program (in the mserv-client package) for
- interfacing and web client (in the mserv-cgi package) to this shell program
- for web-based control.
- - Uses an external player to output, and is known to support mpg321, mpg123,
- ogg123 and freeamp - this could be used to broadcast the output or
- support other players.
- - Comes with a setuid wrapper for mpg123-compatible players that can
- increase the nice level for low-capability processors.
+ - telnet-style control interface, remotely accessible from any
+ appropriate client;
+ - text databases for track information (author, name, year, genre,
+ last play date, duration) and user ratings (awful, bad, neutral,
+ good, superb);
+ - queuing system (track, album, random album, etc.);
+ - random play mode taking users' ratings into account;
+ - search facilities, status information, statistics, etc.;
+ - user management facilities, four levels of users, encrypted passwords;
+ - talker style communication (say, emote etc.);
+ - play, next, pause, stop, repeat, volume, bass, treble settings;
+ - on-line and off-line track information editing;
+ - advanced filter facilities (e.g. 'john=superb', '!good', 'year>1990',
+ 'duration<180', 'genre=pop', 'john=good|fred=unheard');
+ - output via an external player, with support for mpg123, ogg123, etc.;
+ - setuid wrapper provided for mpg123-compatible players, which can
+ increase the nice level for low-capability processors.
.
- For more info see http://www.mserv.org
+ The packages mserv-cgi and mserv-client provide web-based and command-line
+ interfaces; mserv-dev provides a development library.
Package: mserv-client
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: client for centralised multiuser music environment
- Mserv is a music server designed to do a number of things better than most
- systems designed to play mp3s or oggs.
+Description: centralized multiuser music environment - command-line client
+ Mserv is a local network jukebox server.
.
This package contains a client protocol library and very simple command-line
client for the mserv server.
@@ -54,9 +46,8 @@
Package: mserv-cgi
Architecture: all
Depends: mserv-client, apache | httpd, ${perl:Depends}
-Description: CGI scripts for local centralised multiuser music environment
- Mserv is a music server designed to do a number of things better than most
- systems designed to play mp3s.
+Description: centralized multiuser music environment - CGI scripts
+ Mserv is a local network jukebox server.
.
This package contains CGI scripts that can be used to access and control mserv
from a web browser.
@@ -65,9 +56,8 @@
Section: devel
Architecture: any
Depends: mserv-client (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: local centralised multiuser music environment
- Mserv is a music server designed to do a number of things better than most
- systems designed to play mp3s.
+Description: centralized multiuser music environment - development files
+ Mserv is a local network jukebox server.
.
This package contains the header files and static libraries needed
for development.
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