Paul Gevers wrote:
> There is now also
> https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/merge_requests/45/diffs
> which touches on the same point, but is a bit more extensive.
I notice it also has
* some Unicode apostrophes;
* and Unicode quotes instead of <quote>s;
* one en_GB spelling, "flavour";
* "ISOS" where I assume it means "ISOs" (plural of "ISO").
I've also lowercased the releasename "buster" but not the phrase
"Debian Live Buster".
(A lazy non-git-using diff because I'm dist-upgrading my desktop PC
right now!)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
--- whats-new.dbk.old 2019-07-05 20:26:11.308067296 +0100
+++ whats-new.dbk.new 2019-07-05 20:30:48.972132149 +0100
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@
<!-- stretch to buster -->
<title>News from Debian Live team</title>
<para>
- The Debian Live team is proud to introduce LXQt live ISOS as a new flavour.
+ The Debian Live team is proud to introduce LXQt live ISOs as a new flavor.
LXQt is a lightweight Qt desktop environment. It will not get in your way.
It will not hang or slow down your system. It is focused on being a classic
desktop with a modern look and feel.
@@ -695,18 +695,18 @@
app launcher, system tray area, and integrated calendar.
</para>
<para>
- The Buster live images come with something new that a bunch of other
+ The buster live images come with something new that a bunch of other
distributions have also adopted, which is the Calamares installer.
- Calamares is an independent installer project (They call it “The universal
- installer framework”) which offers a Qt based interface for installing a
- system. It doesn’t replace debian-installer on the live images, rather,
+ Calamares is an independent installer project (they call it <quote>The universal
+ installer framework</quote>) which offers a Qt based interface for installing a
+ system. It doesn't replace debian-installer on the live images; rather,
it serves a different audience. Calamares is really easy to use, with
friendly guided partitioning and really simple full-disk encryption setup.
- It doesn’t cover all the advanced features of debian-installer (although it
- very recently got RAID support) and it doesn’t have an unattended install
+ It doesn't cover all the advanced features of debian-installer (although it
+ very recently got RAID support) and it doesn't have an unattended install
mode either. However, for 95%+ of desktop and laptop users, Calamares is a
much easier way to get a system installed, which makes it very appropriate
- for live systems. For anyone who needs anything more complicated, or who’s
+ for live systems. For anyone who needs anything more complicated, or who's
doing a mass-install, debian-installer is still available in both text and
GUI forms.
</para>
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
Debian Live Buster re-introduces the standard live image. This is a basic
Debian image that contains a base Debian system without any graphical user
interface. Because it installs from a squashfs image rather than installing
- the system files using dpkg, installation times are a lot faster than
+ the system files using <command>dpkg</command>, installation times are a lot faster than
installing from a minimal Debian installation image.
</para>
</section>
