Subject: Avoiding gender-specific language Package: user Severity: minor Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I was searching for gender-specific language to correct across all the
documentation that is part of DDP
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
grep -r " he " ./* | grep .sgml
grep -r " his " ./* | grep .sgml
grep -r " him " ./* | grep .sgml
and ignored all the files that were included in a language-specific
folder other than english
* What was the outcome of this action?
I found some issues and created the patch attached here.
All the best,
Myriam
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Index: basic_cmds.sgml =================================================================== --- basic_cmds.sgml (revision 10421) +++ basic_cmds.sgml (working copy) @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ <heading>Turning off the computer</heading> <p>Turning the computer on and off is really a system administration subject, but I include it here because it is something that every user who -is his own administrator needs to know. If someone else is responsible +is also an administrator needs to know. If someone else is responsible for administering the machine, you should neither need nor be able to shut it down.</p>
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