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Bug#515312: marked as done (release-notes: Correct spelling of codename: lenny)

Your message dated Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:39:09 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#515312: release-notes: Correct spelling of codename: lenny
has caused the Debian Bug report #515312,
regarding release-notes: Correct spelling of codename: lenny
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Package: release-notes
Severity: minor

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!

I also checked many point release news and all of them use lower case for
codename.

I recall at one point that I was reminded not to use capitalized style for
codename in my Debian Reference.
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/04/msg00319.html
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/04/msg00338.html
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/04/msg00315.html

Final consensus was to use lower case for codenames.

(In addition to Unix-tradition to use lower case mentioned above, I also
thought we were avoiding trademark issues by using lower case somehow.  After
all all release names have been characters taken from the movie "Toy Story" by
Pixar.)

Some other documents have different styles.
"The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ" follows lower case and uses quotation around.
  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-codenames

"A Brief History of Debian" uses capitalization but uses no quotation mark around now.
  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.en.html
  (This was the case from the start and over 10 years and mentioned in the
   above mentioned ML discussion).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:29:29 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> 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;
> 
I dropped this one (r7999).

> 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?
> 
Looks like there isn't.  Closing, thanks.

Cheers,
Julien

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