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Re: [INTL] I'm puzzled about the exact meaning of one string in apt doc 2.1.16



On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 05:52:59PM +0100, Frans Spiesschaert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Version 2.1.16 of apt docs adds the following new string:
> 
> "Dependency types for ~D and related operators need to be specified in the
> canonical case."
> 
> I'm puzzled about the meaning of the word case in this sentence.
> Do I have to read "case" here as e.g. in upper case or lower case?
> Could someone please clarify this?

That's correct, right now they need to be written in the same case the
manual page says because I did not implement case-insensitive lookup in
the expansion yet (wanted to get the primary ft out first).

Better wordings welcome, or I need to move forward with implementing
case-insensitive lookup for those :)

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