Re: legal/licenses/index.wml

2004-07-06 Thread Colin Watson
I'd personally prefer `licence' when referring to the document(s). > > http://dict.leo.org says: > US: the license, to license > GB: the licence, to licence That is definitely incorrect, and I'm surprised at dict.leo.org for making such a basic mistake. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please don't remove outdated translations if the difference isvery small

2004-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
fixed or > removed. Using this as an example of why outdated translations shouldn't be removed implies that you think it's a good thing that packages with RC bugs (sometimes) aren't fixed or removed ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please don't remove outdated translations if the difference isvery small

2004-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
r. I wonder if more time is wasted for the translators who sometimes have to resurrect content, or for the users who turn up on #debian-boot having wasted hours of effort because five translations still link to the broken sarge CD images from fsn.hu ... (Possibly a bad example since the Englis

Re: Install is Hosed!!

2004-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
there is a problem"; sometimes the problem may not affect everyone, and people may not have seen it before. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260274:

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
policy I can't file bugs against them ;) You can file bugs; they just don't get to be release-critical. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Capitalized names.

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
e ago > > I think it would be good idea to use capitalized code names *everywhere*, > not only in German translation. The English codenames should be lower-case. Think Unix. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
it still correct > to use "them"? I'm sorry to bother you with this, it's just that I've never > seen or heard such sentences. That sentence doesn't feel at all unusual to me. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#269189: Mail server reference card is outdated

2004-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
gs to exactly 'moreinfo' and 'unreproducible' tags 123456 = moreinfo unreproducible So, 'tags 269115 +patch +upstream' as you tried is a syntax error: you should use 'tags 269115 + patch upstream' instead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: minor changes to german/devel/website/

2004-09-09 Thread Colin Watson
> I think your changes improve both pages, but I suggest to remove > all typos you introduced (in a few lines of code!), this includes > s/Grossteil/Großteil/ Isn't this simply new orthography versus old orthography? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#264589: www.debian.org: Online manpages, preferably linked by package?

2004-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
ly recent version of groff? Also, have you looked at the (very hackish, but surprisingly effective) way w3mman works? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Different copyright on the Bugs pages

2005-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
ges under /Bugs/ are derivative works of pages originally written as part of debbugs, and they're still maintained in loose sync (there are various differences in HTML style) with the pages in debbugs CVS. It's appropriate for them to have the same copyright notice as debbugs. -- Colin Wats

Re: Removing old news from webpages (was: Peter Miller memorial page)

2025-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
it to thread and vice versa In that case, it seems like a possible compromise might be to keep the old files in place to avoid breaking links from elsewhere, but no longer list them from the index? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

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