[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#557952: clamsmtp: Improvement for Debconf question

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Thu Nov 26 05:40:46 UTC 2009


Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (debian at helgefjell.de):

> While updating the German translation for calmsmtp, the following
> string was found to be inaccurate:
> "Warning! Use this option at your own risk, and be sure to check directory "
> "permissions after running the 'start' or 'restart' commands for the init "
> "script."
> 
> "start" and "restart" are not commands, but rather parameters for the init
> script. So I suggest the following rewrite:
> 
> "Warning! Use this option at your own risk, and be sure to check directory "
> "permissions after running the init script with the parameters 'start' or "
> "'restart'."


I would also suggest dropping the "Warning!" part. I strongly disagree
with any kind of wording that "carries emotion", such as exclamation
mark and stuff that directly addresses users. Warning notices should
only be factual and neutral.

Here, what's intended is to discourage users to make a given
choice. In such case, just say that "Choosing <foo> is discouraged
because <bar>".

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