Hi Justin, Am Sat, May 27, 2023 at 04:42:32AM +0100 schrieb Justin B Rye: > Andreas Tille wroteL > > Please add the following patch from the Debian Med team to the release > > notes: > > Some English-usage suggestions:
Thanks a lot for looking onto the text in "pedantic mode". ;-) I'm not a native speaker and its perfectly welcome if someone with better language is polishing my scribbling. So I simply ACK all those enhancements. > > <title>News from Debian Med Blend</title> > > > > <para> > > As in every release new packages in the field of life sciences and > > medicine > > were added. > > "Have been" added, and I think it works better as ACK. > As in every release new packages have been added in the fields of > medicine > and life sciences. > > > The new package shiny-server might be worth extra > > mentioning > > The new package <systemitem > role="package">shiny-server</systemitem> > might be worth a particular mention, > > (Or "might be particularly worth mentioning", among other options.) ACK > > since it simplifies scientific web applications using R. > > (Is it worth reorganising that into something like "since it makes it > simpler for scientific web applications to use R" or am I only > noticing it because I'm reading in pedant mode?) > > > We kept on to > > get > > Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained by the > > Debian Med > > team. > > It's not clear whether this means that you maintained the effort and > as a result got CI support or whether CI support is something you > already had that you kept going. Maybe: > We also kept > up the > effort to provide Continuous Integration support for the packages > maintained > by the Debian Med team. This is definitely the better wording which describes what I intended to write. > > </para><para> > > The Debian Med team is continuously interested in feedback from users > > specifically in the form of requesting the packaging of not yet packaged > > free software or backports from new packages or higher versions in > > unstable. > > </para><para> > > This needs at least one extra comma; maybe even: ACK. > The Debian Med team is always interested in feedback from users, > especially in the form of requests for packaging of not-yet-packaged > free software, or for backports from new packages or higher versions > in unstable. > > (Are you *allowed* to put things in stable-backports if there's no > version in stable?) Yes, stable-backports is required to have this package in testing. This might be higher versions than in stable or packages which are not available in stable. > > To install packages maintained by the Debian Med team, install the > > metapackages named med-*, which are at version 3.8.x for Debian > > bookworm. > > Feel free to visit the > > <ulink url="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks";>Debian Med tasks > > pages</ulink> > > to see the full range of biological and medical software available in > > Debian. > > </para> > > This all looks good; I suppose med-* gets a > <replaceable>*</replaceable> but no <systemitem role="package"> tags. I admit I'm not very deep in these tags - thus feel free to pick the proper one. Thanks a lot for your comments and for your work on the release notes Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
