[DRE-maint] Bug#682543: Package description issues

Martin Eberhard Schauer Martin.E.Schauer at gmx.de
Mon Jul 23 15:27:32 UTC 2012


Package: ruby-gettext
Version: 2.2.1-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-english at lists.debian.org

Dear Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers,

I believe that the current package description (0) has some spelling,
punctuation and wording issues. It is quite probable that they are 
inherited
from initial upstream (2), (3).

    Description: Gettext for Ruby
     Ruby GetText Package is Native Language Support Library and Tools
     which modeled after GNU gettext package.
     .

In the first paragraph there seems to be quite a lot of unnessary
capitalisation as well as missing articles und verbs. Actually article and
verb appear at rubydoc.info (4):
       Ruby-GetText-Package is a Localization(L10n) library and tool 
which is
       modeled after the GNU gettext package.

     Features:
       * Simple APIs(similar GNU gettext)
       * rgettext creates po-files from ruby scripts.
     The po-file is compatible to GNU gettext.
       * rmsgfmt creates a mo-file from a po-file.

Are there really multiple APIs? Or is there just one API? Is the output of
rgettext "just compatible" with gettext? Couldn't one say the output 
*is* a po
file when it can be processed easily by e.g. msgfmt?

As a starting point for a revised future description I suggest this version:


Description: gettext for Ruby
  Ruby-GetText-Package is native language support (NLS) library and tools
  which are modeled after the GNU gettext package.
  .
  Features:
    * simple APIs (similar to GNU gettext)
    * rgettext creates po-files from Ruby scripts.
      The po-files are compatible with GNU gettext.
    * rmsgfmt creates a mo-file from a po-file.


CCing l10n-english as I don't know what is right: po-file, po file, PO file.

Kind regards,
    Martin

0: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=132496
1: http://rubyforge.org/projects/gettext/
2: http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html
3: http://ruby-gettext.github.com/
4: http://rubydoc.info/gems/gettext/



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