Bug#515312: release-notes: Correct spelling of codename: lenny
Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I know it is correct to spell proper names capitalized as "Lenny" in the
> proper English grammar.
>
> But I still think "Lenny" in "Release notes" should have been "lenny" if
> we follow recent historic usages.
>
> Here is the fact about recent news:
>
> February 14th, 2009 Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny")
> April 8th, 2007 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch)
> June 6th, 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge')
> July 19th, 2002 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (`woody') (Release Notes)
> August 15th, 2000 Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (codename `potato') (Release Notes)
> December 15th, 1999 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 release (aka slink)
> July 24th, 1998 Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 'Hamm' Released
> June 2nd, 1997 Debian 1.3 Released (no mention of "bo" in news)
>
> Only Hamm used capitalization!
At http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ I see
Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny), Intel x86
although throughout the release notes both "lenny" (&releasename;)
and "Lenny" (&Releasename;) were used. In the trunk (squeeze)
release notes I find:
I. en/issues.dbk:
- Due to an unfortunate interaction of a kernel fix with PCI Express
: subsystem, Lenny default kernel will fail to boot on Sparc
- workstations with PCI Express slots, like Ultra 25 and Ultra
which is probably out of date;
II. en/release-notes.dbk:
- <firstname>Christian</firstname>
- <surname>Perrier</surname>
: <contrib>Lenny installation</contrib>
(and similar), which do not form part of the output;
III. &Nextreleasename; etc in some translations, which presumably have
their own rules.
Is there something left to fix?
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