Bug#880920: Document Rules-Requires-Root field
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:35:09PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 at 13:43:36 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14 2018, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > >> +This command
> > >> +allows the ``debian/rules`` target to run particular subcommands under
> > >
> > > ^^^^^^ lintian will tell you this should be "enables"
> >
> > As a native speaker I find 'allows' more natural than 'enables'.
> > 'Allows' is certainly not grammatically incorrect. Can you point me to
> > the Lintian tag?
>
> (I am a native en_GB speaker)
>
> I agree that the quoted diff was correct English.
>
> Lintian's rather simplistic spelling and grammar checker complains
> about the formulation "this utility *allows to* reticulate splines"
> (my emphasis), which is a fairly common bit of en_DE. I assume it's
> a literal translation of something that's correct in German?
This is also common in en_FR, so it is probably valid in en_EU.
The English passive forms rules are awkward for latin speakers.
It is common to use the latin passive forms rules in en_EU.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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