Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 at 19:11:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I also reworded the paragraph about backports to hopefully address > Holger's reading. It's just trying to say that backports uses aptitude in > the normal way and doesn't do anything special to transform the > alternative. It's perhaps

Bug#1020248: [Git][dbnpolicy/policy][master] 2 commits: Use stanza to refer to deb822 parts instead of paragraph

2022-09-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 01:03:28 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > In the end nothing will match exactly, and we need to choose some > terminology. In this case, as previously mentioned, «stanza» has the > good properties of not usually applying to prose, being short, distinct > from the other terms and t

Bug#1020248: [Git][dbnpolicy/policy][master] 2 commits: Use stanza to refer to deb822 parts instead of paragraph

2022-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Russ and Gregor, thanks for your feedback, I think that I made most of the points I was thinking about and hope that some of them related to Simple English and jargon can be useful in the future. I also understand your point of view. One final comment I would like to make is that the format