[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#447224: openldap2.3: [debconf_rewrite] Debconf templates and debian/control review

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> Russ, others, I've now committed to svn my suggestions for these
> templates, incorporating most of the debian-l10n-english changes but
> also some reversions/updates from my previous email.  I don't consider
> these final, although I have taken the time to merge in the translation
> updates and un-fuzzy by hand as appropriate; so if you think any of the
> recommendations in my previous mail are off-base, please speak up so we
> can come to a consensus and finalize the English templates.  I don't
> think we need to incorporate further translation updates before we
> upload 2.4.7 to unstable, but I do want to get the English templates
> finalized so that we don't have translators spending time working off
> the package in unstable if their translations might be invalidated again
> later.

For the record, my feeling on the general topic of template and
description review is that I tend to default to accepting changes unless I
think they're actually wrong, on the grounds that most of the debates are
questions of style and usually picking a consistent style is more
important than the merits of any particular individual style.  It's
roughly the same as my feeling on coding style; I have strong opinions
when I work on my own stuff, but as part of a larger project, my opinions
are usually less important than consistency.

I have my own pet peeves, like two spaces after periods, but overall it
just doesn't make that much difference to me.  I was happy with the
suggested templates, and I'm happy with Steve's changes.

I'm sorry to have signed off on the template changes and given everyone
the impression that we were all okay with them when Steve had strong
opinions.  I should have realized that, given that he asked for a delay
originally, he probably did so anticipating that he'd have strong opinions
and I shouldn't have signed off without checking with him first.  I'm
sorry for the extra effort and tension that resulted.  :/

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>