Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:38:55PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poor_man%27s > > > > I knew that :) I still don't think it's appropriate nor helpful to describe > > software with these attributes. (Hints: free software is always free as in > > gratis, and men, well, men^wmeh.) > > Packager is using upstream description. From their website, > https://github.com/np1/mps > > Poor Man's Spotify - Search and stream music > > In English, the phrase doesn't carry a negative connotation. It is a > clever way to replace something expensive with something less > expensive.
It doesn't mean we should use gender-specific words in package descriptions. Also, there're too many non-english people in Debian world, so avoiding such expressions we avoid annoying emails coming from annoying non-english people like me. Regards, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .''`. Tiago Bortoletto Vaz GPG : 4096R/E4B6813D : :' : http://acaia.ca/~tiago XMPP : tiago at jabber.org `. `' tiago _at_ {acaia.ca, debian.org} IRC : tiago at OFTC `- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal OS http://www.debian.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140213202539.GD31680@gnudaw
