Re: Replacing ‘may not’ and ‘shall not’ by ‘must not‘ ?

2011-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:47:41AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > Russ Allbery writes: > > > I think it would be lovely to just use RFC 2119 language or a close > > adaptation thereof. > > +1 > > > Doing the conversion in all of Policy would be a ton of work, though. > > It would be an excellen

Re: Replacing ‘may not’ and ‘shall not’ by ‘must not‘ ?

2011-10-26 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:43:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think it would be lovely to just use RFC 2119 language or a close > adaptation thereof. We're sort of reinventing the wheel here, and we're > not doing a very good job of it in terms of consistency and shared > understanding of the

Bug#542288: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: >> I believe it should also document the N.N standard for >> NMUs of non-native packages, since people don't seem inclined to change to >> +nmu and there's probably no reason to do so. I suppose this isn't a compelling argument, but it's just

Re: Replacing ‘may not’ and ‘shall not’ by ‘must not‘ ?

2011-10-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 at 09:32:09 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > being a non-native speaker, I sometimes make the error of > > understanding “may not” as “it is allowed to (one may) not do”, while > > it rather means “must not”. Like for instance in the recent discussion > > a

Re: Replacing ‘may not’ and ‘shall not’ by ‘must not‘ ?

2011-10-26 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Russ Allbery [111026 00:43]: >> I think it would be lovely to just use RFC 2119 language or a close >> adaptation thereof. We're sort of reinventing the wheel here, > There is also those previous art called "language". I do not think it > makes sense at all to sw

Re: Replacing ‘may not’ and ‘shall not’ by ‘must not‘ ?

2011-10-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [111026 00:43]: > I think it would be lovely to just use RFC 2119 language or a close > adaptation thereof. We're sort of reinventing the wheel here, There is also those previous art called "language". I do not think it makes sense at all to switch from the wheel to some cogwheel