Re: Developers who write Debian GNU/Linux when they mean Debian.
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 01:46:47AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:10:52 Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > I just installed a new Debian GNU/Hurd system and while configuring
> > debconf it told me that I should choose the critical priority if I'm
> > new to the Debian GNU/Linux system. I see this very often, also in
> > manpages: "This manual page was written by ... for the Debian
> > GNU/Linux system." This should of course be "for the Debian project."
>
> How about "..for the Debian/GNU system"? both GNU/HURD
> and GNU/Linux are GNU systems so it makes sense to me
> to mention "Debian/GNU" in a generic mean.
I usually prefer just "... for the Debian system". "Debian/GNU" reads
awkwardly to me.
> > Is there a "policy" for such things? What should I do? Should I file
> > bug reports? Or should I send a mail to debian-devel asking if all
> > maintainers would change such bugs? That might start a flame war, but
> > I think it's worth it.
>
> Such pages are sometimes written after a link to the undocumented(7)
> manpage explains that the package needs a new manpage.
>
> Perhaps it'd be a good idea to start modifying undocumented(7) to tell
> the manpage creators to avoid the mentioned phrase.
I think that's the wrong place. It would be better to fix any example
man pages that use this phrasing instead, such as the example in the
dh-make package.
In fact, there's already a bug filed about this: #115567.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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