Bug#434953: “not marked as fixed” instead of “marked as not fixed”
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:33:24PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > I’m just reading
> > > Bug marked as not fixed in version 6.6.1-2.
> > and I thought that it should rather say
> > > Bug not marked as fixed in version 6.6.1-2.
> > Which is what it’s doing. (I think). Maybe you want to change that.
>
> Well, it's really marking that it's not actually fixed in version
> 6.6.1-2; I wrote it that way because the command is actually notfixed,
> and because the way that sounds most "correct" (to me anyway):
I agree with Don. "Bug not marked as fixed" means something different
and doesn't accurately describe what the command is doing. English word
order is significant at times. :-)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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