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Bug#552757: debian-policy: all caps "must"



Jakub Wilk wrote:
* Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>, 2009-10-29, 10:16:
"must" is a quite common word in the Debian Policy:

For consistency, I'd do s/MUST/must/.

But not automatically. On RFC usage "must" is different from "MUST", so you SHOULD distinguish the normative "MUST" and with the non normative "must".

The Debian Policy is not an RFC. A lowercased "must" is normative, see section 1.1.

oops. I read your change in the wrong way.

So I agree with your change.


BTW the sentence about must (in 1.1) starts with "In the normative part",
and it is not is not always simple to distinguish the normative with
the informative part (but such problems are being slowly solved, removing
old non-normative text from main text).

ciao
	cate




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