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Bug#675270: www.debian.org: ambiguous expression for debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org in list page on website and Debian Project News



reassign 675270 lists.debian.org
thanks

Forwarding the request where it belongs. For the DPN part of this
report, feel free to propose a patch to d-publicity.

Regards

David

Le 30/05/2012 17:16, AYANOKOUZI, Ryuunosuke a écrit :
> Package: www.debian.org
> Severity: minor
> 
> Here I suggest to change the summary of
> debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org in list page on website and an
> expression in Important Debian Security Advisories section on Debian
> Project News.
> 
> 
> 1. Summary of debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org on website
> 
> 
> debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org's list page on website [1]
> summary says,
> 
> "Announcements of updates to stable
> Updates to stable packages will be announced on this list."
> 
> Isn't this ambiguous? For non-native English speaker like Japanese, it
> looks updates for stable section is announced on the list. But it is
> not correct, isn't it?  For such purpose, people use
> debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org [2]. Properly speaking,
> updates for "stable-update section" is announced on
> debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org [3], isn't it?
> 
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/
> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
> [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#stable-updates
> 
> I know that debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org list is successor
> of debian-volatile-announce@lists.debian.org [4,5]. From this view
> point, should the summary of debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org
> be like as shown bellow?
> 
> "Announcements for the stable-update section
> Announcements relating to the stable-update section include new uploads and changes."
> 
> [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2012/msg00000.html
> [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/
> 
> 
> 2. Expression in Debian Project News (DPN)
> 
> 
> Latest DPN saying in Important Debian Security Advisories section that
> [6],
> 
> "If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released
> by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing
> list (and the separate backports list, and stable updates list) for
> announcements."
> 
> In this statement, "stable updates list" is linked to the page of
> debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org.
> 
> [6] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/11/#dsa
> 
> "stable updates" means a "stable-update section". So, "stable update
> list" should be "stable-update section's list". this is clearer
> expression I think.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.5
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Regards,
> AYANOKOUZI, Ryuunosuke
> --
> AYANOKOUZI, Ryuunosuke <i38w7i3@yahoo.co.jp>


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