[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#590919: Bug#590919: Please consider rewording the new debconf paragraph

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 07:25:36AM +0200, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:
> both reviewers of my translation and i agree that splitting the second  
> sentence
> would improve the readability.
>
> #. Type: string
> #. Description
> #: ../templates:3001
> msgid ""
> "It should be a persistent DNS domain relating to your installation, for "
> "example example.org, or perhaps rt.example.org. It should not be changed "
> "during the lifetime of the RT database, so it recommended not to use the "
> "default value of the system hostname, and therefore if you plan to  
> restore "
> "an existing database to this installation you should use the same value  
> as "
> "previously."
>
> I suggest to replace the last four lines with
>
> "during the lifetime of the RT database, so it is recommended not to use  
> the "
> "default value of the system hostname. Therefore you should use the same "
> "value as previously if you plan to restore an existing database to this "
> "installation."

I'm not sure I agree. Stylistically, starting a sentence with
"Therefore" sounds wrong to me.

In any case, I won't plan to update the English just for this single
change, as it'll prompt another round of translation which won't be
justified, but I'll leave this open for now and will consider it the next
time the English is updated for other reasons.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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