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Re: Supported languages (was: draft of the release announcement; please review)



Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> [070406 23:38]:
> 
>> Updated package indices won't be downloaded in their entirety, but instead
>> patched with smaller files containing only differences from earlier versions.
> 
> Ah, I like it.  Commited :)

I vote against "indices".  According to the OED and every other
reference work I can find, the standard plural of "index" in the
sense of "alphabeticised list" is "indexes"; "indices" are the kind
of index that occurs in mathematics or physics ("refractive index",
"subscript index" etc).
-- 
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)



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