Comment on introduction pages

2010-06-03 Thread Christina Gratorp
Hi! I found a bug in the intro pages for automake: http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Introduction. The sentence The developer expresses the recipe to build *his* package in a Makefile must be wrong since I'm a woman and a user and have packages I want to build and those packages

Re: Comment on introduction pages

2010-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/03/2010 08:01 AM, Christina Gratorp wrote: Hi! Hello, You mailed the autoconf list, but complained about the automake manual. You may want to resend this to a more appropriate list if you want anything to change, since this sentence does not appear in the autoconf manual. I found a

Re: Comment on introduction pages

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes: Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages where the pronoun his can have a neuter sense rather than masculine, and this is one of those cases. Politically correct pundits are trying to eradicate that usage, but personally,

Re: Comment on introduction pages

2010-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/03/2010 06:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes: Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages where the pronoun his can have a neuter sense rather than masculine, and this is one of those cases. Politically correct pundits are

Re: Comment on introduction pages

2010-06-03 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Chris, On 3 Jun 2010, at 21:01, Christina Gratorp wrote: I found a bug in the intro pages for automake: http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Introduction. The sentence The developer expresses the recipe to build *his* package in a Makefile must be wrong since I'm a woman and a

Re: Comment on introduction pages

2010-06-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, June 03, 2010 22:26:49 Eric Blake wrote: On 06/03/2010 06:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes: Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages where the pronoun his can have a neuter sense rather than masculine, and this is