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Re: Capitalization conventions for Debian release names



On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:54:02PM -0400, David Sewell wrote:
> Is there a consensus among documentation writers on how to handle Debian
> release codenames (Slink, Potato, Woody, etc.)? Usage varies almost
> randomly, it seems, even in publications like the Debian Weekly News,
> where you can find "woody" and "Woody" in the same paragraph.

The DWN often goes through several rounds of proofreading, this is the
smallest of the problems found in spelling of that document... :)

I'm fairly sure the codenames in the more static, official documents are
lowercased.

> And Josip, I owe you an apology for calling you "Jospin"--I must have had
> French politics on my brain.

No problem, I don't even recall when that happened :)

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