Re: [LCFC] templates://chkrootkit/{templates}

[Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk>]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Justin B Rye (jbr@edlug.org.uk):
>> It's true to say that it's software, but the word doesn't contribute
>> any information in a package description (except for making it
>> slightly easier to detect the author's native language).
> 
> Hmm, are you meaning that "<foo> software" is typical Frenglish?

"A software" and other uses that treat it as a countable noun
parallel to _logiciel_ are obvious Frenglish.  Here, thanks to the
article-dropping rule, it's ambiguous whether the package
description is talking about "a software" or "(some) software".

If it's the latter, it's not Frenglish, but being made of software
isn't something that distinguishes this package from 30,000 others.
--
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package