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Bug#774837: marked as done (developers-reference: avoid using gender binary in advice to be gender neutral)

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Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.12
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

section 6.5.2.6. is titled "be gender neutral" and also explicitly
advises to "use gender-neutral constructions in your writing" but in the
same line says "The world is made of men and women". This is not being
gender neutral as the world is not only made of men and women.

The attached patch tries to solve this problem by turning "The world is
made of men and women." into "The world is not only made of men and
women." and appending the part from the README-contrib which explains
that the singular they should be used as the gender of the subject is
unknown.

Thanks!

cheers, josch

>From 2e45a909750f76caee69e3ff79a8601cfef1ea8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: josch <j.schauer@email.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:53:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] avoid using gender binary in advice to be gender neutral

---
 best-pkging-practices.dbk | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/best-pkging-practices.dbk b/best-pkging-practices.dbk
index 1651ddb..8728f49 100644
--- a/best-pkging-practices.dbk
+++ b/best-pkging-practices.dbk
@@ -917,8 +917,12 @@ still possible, like <emphasis>Enable this if ...</emphasis> instead of <emphasi
 <section id="s6.5.2.6">
 <title>Be gender neutral</title>
 <para>
-The world is made of men and women.  Please use gender-neutral constructions in
-your writing.
+The world is not only made of men and women. Please use gender-neutral
+constructions in your writing. This means avoiding pronouns like he/she when
+referring to a role (like "maintainer") whose gender is unknown. Instead of you
+should use the plural form
+(<ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they";>singular they</ulink>).
+
 </para>
 </section>
 
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2.0.1

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Source: developers-reference
Source-Version: 3.4.20

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
developers-reference, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 774837@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> (supplier of updated developers-reference package)

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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:23:40 +0200
Source: developers-reference
Binary: developers-reference developers-reference-de developers-reference-fr developers-reference-ja developers-reference-ru developers-reference-it
Architecture: source
Version: 3.4.20
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Developers Reference Maintainers <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Description:
 developers-reference - guidelines and information for Debian developers
 developers-reference-de - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in German
 developers-reference-fr - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in French
 developers-reference-it - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in Italian
 developers-reference-ja - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in Japanese
 developers-reference-ru - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in Russian
Closes: 540852 544135 604193 773544 774837 798106 834070 874291 878033 883742 888978 896191
Changes:
 developers-reference (3.4.20) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
   * Team upload.
   * Reduce the large package tracker section to a few small paragraphs
     pointing to the real documentation hosted on
     https://qa.pages.debian.net/distro-tracker/
   * Apply typo/rewording patch from Paul Hardy. Closes: #878033
   * Update IRC channel list with better examples. Closes: #773544
   * Be more specific in the recommendation to use gender-neutral
     constructions. Thanks to Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>
     for the initial patch. Closes: #774837
   * Bump the minimal size of the GPG key to 2018 bits and put link
     to keyring.debian.org. Closes: #798106
   * Recommend using "which" to test availability of a command.
     Thanks to Axel Beckert for the patch. Closes: #883742
   * Point out that a non-working email is a policy violation. Improve
     MIA explanations. Closes: #604193, #544135
     Thanks to Caitlin Matos for the patch.
   * Replace some backticks with normal quotes in japanese translation
     to fix a build failure with LaTeX 2018. Closes: #896191
     Thanks to Hilmar Preuße for the patch.
   * Simplify generation of PUBDATE by relying on SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
   * Drop Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org> from Uploaders.
 .
   [ Ansgar Burchardt ]
   * security uploads should go to *.security.upload.d.o (closes: #874291)
 .
   [ Julien Cristau ]
   * Update Vcs-* control fields.
   * Fix upload host name (ssh.upload.debian.org, not ssh.debian.org);
     closes: #888978.  Thanks, Thorsten Alteholz!
 .
   [ Sean Whitton ]
   * Include link to Riseup's "OpenPGP Best Practices" (closes: #834070)
   * Add section "Selecting the upload urgency" to best-pkging-practices
     (Closes: #540852).
 .
   [ Aurélien COUDERC ]
   * Fix CSS text color to avoid the HTML version being unreadable when
     using a light on dark default browser stylesheet.
   * d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.5, no change needed.
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