Re: [INTL] I'm puzzled about the exact meaning of one string in apt doc 2.1.16
Hi Julian Andres,
Julian Andres Klode schreef op di 12-01-2021 om 23:35 [+0100]:
> 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).
Thank you for your quick reply and this clarification.
>
> Better wordings welcome, or I need to move forward with implementing
> case-insensitive lookup for those :)
The following suggestions aren't really better wordings, I guess,
but you could perhaps add "(they are case sensitive)" to the existing
frase,
or maybe you could use the clarification you gave me and make the sentence
read something like this:
"Dependency types for ~D and related operators need to be specified the way
they appear in their manual page (they are case sensitive)."
Thank you for your contributions to Debian and to free software.
Frans Spiesschaert
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