[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Please consider interacting with translators when introducing/modifying new debconf templates

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle at debian.org):

> > Lets get this package setteled first. I have no idea if it will have
> > the same question text or even same debconf templates in a month or
> > two.
> 
> 
> In such case, I'd suggest to avoid marking the debconf templates for
> translation when introducing them...but, anyway, now it's done.... so,
> wouldn't it be good to "fix" the templates for the few very obvious
> things we could:
> 
> - avoid interrogative form in synopsis for ia32-apt-get/allowed-packages
> - shorten the enumeration in that template to avoid multi-paragraph
>   that wastes space
> - fix a few typography problems such as space before ellipsis and the
> like
> - drop possessive form ("your <foo> file")


Goswin, have you made your mind about reviewing these debconf
templates or not?

We could do a quite basic review at first, just to allow a quick
translation round, then maybe come back on these strings later if you
happen to need changing them.

Jonathan Wilshire seems ready to do such review.


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