Re: Dependency fields: Updated maint-guide contents, question on style
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:48:11AM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > In this text, I wonder the following part of text is a bit skewed. What
> > is the subject of "should contain":
> >
> > | These versions are listed in parentheses after each individual package
> > | name, and should contain a relation from the list below followed by the
> > | version number.
>
> "These versions" (or strictly speaking I suppose an elided repetition
> of the same noun phrase). You're right, it doesn't really mean
> "versions" here, it means something like "versioned dependency
> expressions".
Yah, it made sense when reading in English but when translating them to
Japanese, I was bothered. Now 100% translated :-) (So is French close
to 100%.)
> > I am changing this to:
> >
> > The restriction for each individual package is listed in parentheses
> > after its name, and should contain a relation from the list below
> > followed by a version number value.
> >
> > I hope this is OK.
>
> Yes, that should be clearer. And there are a couple of examples... do
> you think maybe one of the examples should involve a "|"?
It can.
foo2|foo
foo2 being preffered current one and foo being virtual pkg.
Osamu
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