Bug#22006: marked as done (Minor corrections - Policy Manual 2.4.1.0)
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From: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>
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Subject: Re: Minor corrections - Policy Manual 2.4.1.0
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I received this via private mail:
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This message is not intended to address policy (if it was, I
> would copy it to the mailing list). It deals only with matters of
> spelling, grammar and usage.
>
> "Required", under Section 2.2 Priorities says:
>
> You must not remove these packages or your system may become
> totally broken and you may probably not even be able to use dpkg to
> put things back. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is redundant wording. It should read either "may not even
> be able" or (slightly stronger) "probably will not be able".
>
> "Important", in the same section, says:
>
> "If the expectation is that an experienced Unix person who found it
> missing would go `What the F*!@<+ is going on, where is foo',"
> ^^
> "say" is much preferable to "go" in this context. That usage of
> "go" is "Valley-speak" or teenage slang, no standard English.
>
> In 3.3.5 Symbolic links it says: "link targets like `foo/../bar'
> are depreciated". "deprecated" is the proper word in this usage.
>
> I hope this doesn't come across as too critical of your English
> skills. Ever since I started reading the Debian mailing lists, I have
> been very favorably impressed by the English skills of the majority of
> the European maintainers, and you are among the best in that respect.
>
> Bob
> --
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>
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