diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index bd42bbf..ede8945 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ - a "watched" directory (typically: /etc) - changelogs written by you in one or several files (e.g. /root/Changelog) - - Debian packages states and versions (using apt-show-versions) + - States and versions of Debian packages (using apt-show-versions) by periodically: - saving backups of the corresponding files - - emailing you, for example on your administrators' mailing list, - the changes in the system state; see - https://poivron.org/dev/metche/ for an example. + - emailing the changes in the system state to your administrator's + mailing list diff --git a/debian/templates b/debian/templates index 6bfb2c1..07763d5 100644 --- a/debian/templates +++ b/debian/templates @@ -1,17 +1,15 @@ Template: metche/email Type: string Default: root -Description: Email address to which the reports will be sent. +Description: Send the reports to this email address. By default, metche is run periodically by a cron job which returns reports containing changes made to: - the changelog file(s), - the watched directory, - the list of installed Debian packages. This option indicates to which email address those reports will be - sent and typically corresponds to your collective mailing-list - address. - . - See https://poivron.org/dev/metche/ for an example. + sent and typically corresponds to your collective administration + mailing-list address. . Note: metche is also able to use GnuPG to encrypt the email it sends, but does not by default. See the man page and the configuration file @@ -21,9 +19,10 @@ Type: select Choices: Single changelog file, Multiple changelog files, No changelog monitoring Description: Changelog monitoring type. - Metche monitors changelogs written by *you* and which should comment - the changes you made to the system. You can choose between two - different types of monitoring: + Metche monitors changelogs written by the administrators of the + system, these changelogs contain comments describing the changes made + to the system. You can choose between two different types of + monitoring: - Single changelog file monitoring or - Multiple changelog files monitoring, in which each "Changelog" file in sub-directories of a given directory will be monitored.