Bug#376050: please do not claim to "Manage permissions with debconf"

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: tex-common
> Version: 0.24
> Severity: normal
>
> Debconf is a program that asks questions of the user. It does not manage
> config files or permissions of the TeX font cache and I do not
> appreciate text that implies that it does:
>
[...]
>  │ Manage the permissions of the TeX font cache with debconf?               │  

I see your point.  Is there a generally accepted term that should be
used instead?  "Managed by the postinst script" is too technical,
"managed by the package configuration mechanism" sounds too vague to
me.  

> Also, the "if you accept" / "if you do not accept" is some of the more
> clumsy English I have seen outside of 419 scams. Accept what?

Hm, that comes from the desire to phrase it in a way that will be
understandable in different frontends, in the readline where you have to
type "yes" as well as in the X-based ones where you simply click a
checkbox.  The intended meaning is "if you choose to let the postinst
script handle things"; what wording do you suggest?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)