> > It's not much of a justification -- it basically amounts to "my way is
> > right" followed by a personal insult to anyone who disagrees.
>
> Hmm. I feel you may not have read the first two paragraphs of that, and
> have only responded to the last.
The first paragraph begins by asserting the
> Does Debian have a specific policy about this? 'cause I don't
> think either (s)he or his/her type replacements are nearly as
> aesthetic...
Well I tend to use "they" / "their" myself, which is in fairly common
usage. e.g.:
If a student falls asleep in class, they will probably absorb the
(Replying to d-devel as per m-f-t and d-qa as per request).
Thanks for your work with the RFH tag; this is a great idea.
One request though: Could you please change the the tag description to
use gender-neutral language? Currently http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
has "he" and "his" scattered
> I'm not sure you can say it's always a bug for Debian's package to be
> out-of-sync with the latest upstream release.
>
> For instance, there is a 2.x release of CPAN's HTML::FromText, which is
> a complete rewrite by a new upstream maintainer. However, the new
> maintainer freely admits tha
Package: knewsticker
Version: 4:2.2.2-1
Severity: normal
Hmm. Okay, here's what happens.
I boot the computer. I log into KDE which tries to restore my last
session. My last session had kicker at the bottom of the screen, a
child panel at the top and a knewsticker applet in the child panel.
At
Package: kde-i18n-nl
Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-10
Severity: wishlist
Hi. It seems most of the kde i18n packages have full language names in
their short and long descriptions, but kde-i18n-nl simply calls the
language "nl".
Thanks - Ben.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstabl
Package: vrweb
Version: 1.5-6.2
Severity: normal
Hi. The vrweb menu file is broken. It currently reads:
?package(vrweb): needs=X11 section=Apps/Net title="VRweb VRML browser" \
command="/usr/X11R6/bin/vrweb"
?package(vrweb): needs="dwww" section="Apps/Net" \
title="VRWeb VRML Br
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immediately so there is no need to wait till the 2.2 alpha release.
Since an ITA has been recently issued on kdevelop, I am CCing this bug report
to the proposed new maintainer.
Thanks,
Ben.
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Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/
Director of Training
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