Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
> The package is maintained but I don't intend to prepare a new upload
> fixing _only_ this minor spelling mistake.
Pardon me for sticking my oar in here; I'd like to point out that
the "spelling mistake" in question is arguable anyway, and is
sitting right next to another, similar mistake which is less
arguable. My patch barely registers as "minor"; in my view the
maintainer is quite entitled to regard it as "wishlist".
Current version:
# This GUI only needs an URL to a RDF file storing SIOC forums
# information to start browsing and searching into it.
This implies the pronunciation "an url" (homophonous with "earl")
rather than "a U.R.L." ("you ar el"). "U.R.L." is more widely used,
but "url" is not a mistake; I know people who really say that.
However, "a RDF file" is a mistake; there's universal agreement that
it's pronounced as "ar dee eff", so it requires "an".
The package description also has a couple of slightly awkward
features that make it obvious that it was written by a non-native
English-speaker, but I'm not sure I'd bother fixing them even if the
package passed through debian-l10n-english for a review.
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru buxon-0.0.4.pristine/debian/control buxon-0.0.4/debian/control
--- buxon-0.0.4.pristine/debian/control 2009-09-24 11:24:36.000000000 +0100
+++ buxon-0.0.4/debian/control 2009-09-24 11:49:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@
Archive of Mailing Lists) project, provides a graphical user
interface which helps you to browse SIOC forums.
.
- This GUI only needs an URL to a RDF file storing SIOC forums
+ This GUI only needs a URL to an RDF file storing SIOC forums
information to start browsing and searching into it.
