Bug#513053: [checks/descriptions] warn when first person is used in descriptions

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> 
> Oh, and I dropped "You" from the check as it's not first-person 

Heh, right.

> and it's 
> not already checked by debconf.  I think that one's more questionable and
> more a matter of style.  We may want to impose such a style, but I think
> more consensus is needed before doing that.  I would tend to say "this
> package is not suitable for..." instead of "You shouldn't use this package
> if...", but I don't think there's anything basically wrong with the second
> construction.
>

I don't think that using "You" in a description is ok (not even
lowercase "you", but that would be too picky); but I won't object to try to
reach a concensus about it. 

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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