[Pkg-shadow-devel] Announcement of 4.0.11-1

[Christine Spang]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 20:35 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I want to post an annoucement of 4.0.11-1 in experimental. Below is
> the text I intend to send:

Here we go - native-English-speaker-proofreading (including full text of
revision at the end):

> -----------------------------cut here ------------------------------------
> The shadow mpackage maintenance team is proud to announce the release
> of the version 4.0.11-1 of the shadow package, in experimental.

"mpackage" -> package, unless I'm missing something. Also, "the" is
unnecessary in between "of" and "version".

> Shadow is the source package for passwd and login and is part of the
> base system. Both packages are "Priority: required".
> 
> This package was highly desynchronized with upstream: up to now we
> had the 4.0.3 version in Debian (including sarge and sid) while
> upstream was still moving on with many changes. Moreover, the 4.0.3
> Debian version had accumulated a huge number of Debian-specific patches.

"the 4.0.3 version" -> "version 4.0.3"
The second usage (after "Moreover") is fine.

> Since May, the shadow package maintenance team has worked both on the
> current version in Debian, trying to deal with over 120 bug reports,
> some of them being over 5 years old.

There is something missing here if we're going to use the term "both".
"both on the current version in Debian" -- and what?

> While dealing with many issues in 4.0.3, the team also made its best
> to resynchronise with upstream. The huge number of Debian specific
> patches made this work very tedious and long, which explains the 3
> months delay for a new version in Debian.

"made its best" -> "did its best" (better English; "made its best
effort" would also work)

> However, thanks mostly to Nicolas François and Alexander Gattin work,
> as well as the upstream author (Tomasz Klockzko) collaboration, we
> have managed to prepare a new release which uses the latest upstream
> code, namely 4.0.11.1 version.

I would suggest: "However, thanks mostly to the work of Nicolas François
and Alexander Gattin, as well as the upstream author's (Tomasz
Klockzko's) collaboration, we have... (to deal with possession)

> We made our best to keep all features from 4.0.3 available with the
> goal of making the transition as smooth as possible.

"made our best" -> "did our best" (as previously)

> Of course, giving the critical importance of some utilities provided
> by login and passwd (mostly su), we have decided to upload the new
> version in experimental.

"giving" -> "given"

> Please test it as much as possible by installing the new passwd and
> login packages. Package maintainers who use "su" in their maintainer
> scripts should test them with the new su as much as possible.
> 
> We also recommend all package maintainers using useradd to give these
> packages a try and check them (DO NOT confuse useradd, which is a "low
> level" utility provided by passwd, and adduser which is a Debian
> specific utility, provided in a separate package).
> 
> The shadow package maintenance team, starring
> (ALPHABETICALLY)  
> Nicolas François
>  INTERNATIONALLY SUPER STARRING (ALPHABETICALLY)
> Alexander Gattin
>  EXTRA-TERRESTRIALLY CO-SUPER (ALSO ALPHABETICALLY) STARRING
> Tomasz Klockzko
>  SUPER-INTER- GALACTICALLY (A BIT ALPHABETICALLY) CO MEGA STARRING
> Christian Perrier
> SUPRA COSMICALLY INTER-UNIVERSALLY ULTRA ALPHABETICALLY HYPER-STARRING
> Martin Quinson
> AND
> Christine Spang
> AS THE WOMAN WITH THE BIGGEST CREDIT

You are my hero for the awesome referencing.

Aussi, ton anglais est beaucoup mieux que mon français (est-ce que ceux
mots sont masculin ou féminin?).

Full text, hopefully with no errors, except for the one issue mentioned
above with "both", which I didn't fix because I'm not sure what exactly
it intended to say:

-----------------------------cut here --------------------------------
The shadow package maintenance team is proud to announce the release
of version 4.0.11-1 of the shadow package, in experimental.

Shadow is the source package for passwd and login and is part of the
base system. Both packages are "Priority: required".

This package was highly desynchronized with upstream: up to now we
had version 4.0.3 in Debian (including sarge and sid) while
upstream was still moving on with many changes. Moreover, the 4.0.3
Debian version had accumulated a huge number of Debian-specific patches.

Since May, the shadow package maintenance team has worked both on the
current version in Debian, trying to deal with over 120 bug reports,
some of them being over 5 years old.

While dealing with many issues in 4.0.3, the team also did its best
to resynchronise with upstream. The huge number of Debian specific
patches made this work very tedious and long, which explains the 3
months delay for a new version in Debian.

However, thanks mostly to the work of Nicolas François and Alexander
Gattin, as well as the upstream author's (Tomasz Klockzko's) 
collaboration, we have managed to prepare a new release which uses the
latest upstream code, namely version 4.0.11.1.

We did our best to keep all features from 4.0.3 available with the
goal of making the transition as smooth as possible.

Of course, given the critical importance of some utilities provided
by login and passwd (mostly su), we have decided to upload the new
version in experimental.

Please test it as much as possible by installing the new passwd and
login packages. Package maintainers who use "su" in their maintainer
scripts should test them with the new su as much as possible.

We also recommend all package maintainers using useradd to give these
packages a try and check them (DO NOT confuse useradd, which is a "low
level" utility provided by passwd, and adduser which is a Debian
specific utility, provided in a separate package).

The shadow package maintenance team, starring
(ALPHABETICALLY)  
Nicolas François
 INTERNATIONALLY SUPER STARRING (ALPHABETICALLY)
Alexander Gattin
 EXTRA-TERRESTRIALLY CO-SUPER (ALSO ALPHABETICALLY) STARRING
Tomasz Klockzko
 SUPER-INTER- GALACTICALLY (A BIT ALPHABETICALLY) CO MEGA STARRING
Christian Perrier
SUPRA COSMICALLY INTER-UNIVERSALLY ULTRA ALPHABETICALLY HYPER-STARRING
Martin Quinson
AND
Christine Spang
AS THE WOMAN WITH THE BIGGEST CREDIT


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        J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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