Re: Bug#738839: ITP: mps -- Poor Man's Spotify - Search and stream music
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:38:55PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> >> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poor_man%27s
> >
> > I knew that :) I still don't think it's appropriate nor helpful to describe
> > software with these attributes. (Hints: free software is always free as in
> > gratis, and men, well, men^wmeh.)
>
> Packager is using upstream description. From their website,
> https://github.com/np1/mps
>
> Poor Man's Spotify - Search and stream music
>
> In English, the phrase doesn't carry a negative connotation. It is a
> clever way to replace something expensive with something less
> expensive.
It doesn't mean we should use gender-specific words in package
descriptions. Also, there're too many non-english people in Debian
world, so avoiding such expressions we avoid annoying emails coming from
annoying non-english people like me.
Regards,
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