Hi Elena, On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:14:20AM -0000, Packages entering NEW: Elena Grandi wrote: > Description: > debdate - Convert Gregorian dates to Debian Regnal dates > Changes: > debdate (0.20170714-1) unstable; urgency=low > * First debian upload. Closes: #877404 when I first saw this package (or its ITP) I liked it (and I still do!), I just mildly wondered what "Regnal" means. Now that it entered NEW I looked it up and learned on wikipedia that "A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin regnum meaning kingdom, rule." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnal_date) Which strikes me as quite unappropriate for Debian! "We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. " is a quote used by Anthony Towns a lot, in fact so much, that I was led to believe it's from Debian and an old Debian motto - while in fact it was coined by Dave Clark from and for the IETF. (See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_D._Clark) Still, this quote is very close to the core values of Debian too, we too believe in rough consensus and running code! And we have a DPL, not a king! So I guess this boils down that I should file this as a wishlist bug against debdate to change the package description to, eg, "Convert Gregorian dates to Debian Release dates" - what do you think? -- cheers, Holger
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