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Re: Please update debconf PO translation for the package pam 0.99.7.1-5

by Steve Langasek <vorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sep 25, 2007 at 10:40 PM

Hi Esko,

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:08:15AM +0300, Esko Arajärvi wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 September 2007 08:32, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Thank you for your help to translate the recently-added pam debconf
> > templates to your language.

> > But I have to apologize to you, because the templates have changed
again in
> > response to bug re****ts about the upgrade behavior, so your
translations
> > are again incomplete with some messages missing or marked "fuzzy".

> I thought I downloaded the pot file from Debian www-site, but it seems I
used 
> the one from the mailing list. Anyway, here's an updated version.

The Debian website didn't have anything more recent either.  This version
of
the .pot file is not yet uploaded to unstable.

> > The changes have been discussed with both debian-i18n and
debian-devel, so
> > these strings should not need to be changed again.

> I just have to ask about one string. Sorry if this induces more
chahnges. :-]

> msgid "The kdm, wdm, and xdm display managers require a restart for the
new 
> version of libpam, but there are X login sessions active on your system
that 
> would be terminated by this restart.  You will therefore need to restart

> these services by hand before further X logins will be possible."

> What I think weird here is the use of word "therefore". The explanation
does 
> not give any reason why I couldn't open new X sessions before restart
(using 
> the old libpam library which supposedly is still loaded in the memory).
But 
> the use of word "therefore" sounds to me like there should be an
explanation 
> in the preceding sentence. I'm not a native English speaker so this
might be 
> just my misunderstanding. Or maybe I don't know enough about the
mechanisms 
> of the X servers and display managers.

The explanation is "the display manager needs a restart for the new
version
of libpam, and the display manager is not being restarted automatically."
You're right that it doesn't give a reason why the restart is needed; this
is a technical detail which is not relevant to what is being asked of the
user, and including this information would just confuse most users.

Anyway, more explanation is found in the first "restart-services" prompt:

 Most services that use PAM need to be restarted to use modules built for
 this new version of libpam.

That's as much explanation as I think users should be subjected to, and I
don't think we need to repeat it in the second debconf message.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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 2 Posts in Topic:
Re: Please update debconf PO translation for the package pam 0.9
Esko =?iso-8859-1?q?Araj=  2007-09-25 10:30:17 
Re: Please update debconf PO translation for the package pam 0.9
Steve Langasek <vorlon  2007-09-25 22:40:07 

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