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Package: release-notes
Severity: minor
I know it is correct to spell proper names capitalized as "Lenny" in the
proper English grammar.
But I still think "Lenny" in "Release notes" should have been "lenny" if
we follow recent historic usages.
Here is the fact about recent news:
February 14th, 2009 Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny")
April 8th, 2007 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch)
June 6th, 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge')
July 19th, 2002 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (`woody') (Release Notes)
August 15th, 2000 Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (codename `potato') (Release Notes)
December 15th, 1999 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 release (aka slink)
July 24th, 1998 Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 'Hamm' Released
June 2nd, 1997 Debian 1.3 Released (no mention of "bo" in news)
Only Hamm used capitalization!
I also checked many point release news and all of them use lower case for
codename.
I recall at one point that I was reminded not to use capitalized style for
codename in my Debian Reference.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/04/msg00319.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/04/msg00338.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/04/msg00315.html
Final consensus was to use lower case for codenames.
(In addition to Unix-tradition to use lower case mentioned above, I also
thought we were avoiding trademark issues by using lower case somehow. After
all all release names have been characters taken from the movie "Toy Story" by
Pixar.)
Some other documents have different styles.
"The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ" follows lower case and uses quotation around.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-codenames
"A Brief History of Debian" uses capitalization but uses no quotation mark
around now.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.en.html
(This was the case from the start and over 10 years and mentioned in the
above mentioned ML discussion).
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:29:29 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> > I know it is correct to spell proper names capitalized as "Lenny" in the
> > proper English grammar.
> >
> > But I still think "Lenny" in "Release notes" should have been "lenny" if
> > we follow recent historic usages.
> >
> > Here is the fact about recent news:
> >
> > February 14th, 2009 Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny")
> > April 8th, 2007 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch)
> > June 6th, 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge')
> > July 19th, 2002 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (`woody') (Release Notes)
> > August 15th, 2000 Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (codename `potato') (Release
> > Notes)
> > December 15th, 1999 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 release (aka slink)
> > July 24th, 1998 Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 'Hamm' Released
> > June 2nd, 1997 Debian 1.3 Released (no mention of "bo" in news)
> >
> > Only Hamm used capitalization!
>
> At http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ I see
>
> Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny), Intel x86
>
> although throughout the release notes both "lenny" (&releasename;)
> and "Lenny" (&Releasename;) were used. In the trunk (squeeze)
> release notes I find:
>
> I. en/issues.dbk:
>
> - Due to an unfortunate interaction of a kernel fix with PCI Express
> : subsystem, Lenny default kernel will fail to boot on Sparc
> - workstations with PCI Express slots, like Ultra 25 and Ultra
>
> which is probably out of date;
>
I dropped this one (r7999).
> II. en/release-notes.dbk:
>
> - <firstname>Christian</firstname>
> - <surname>Perrier</surname>
> : <contrib>Lenny installation</contrib>
>
> (and similar), which do not form part of the output;
>
> III. &Nextreleasename; etc in some translations, which presumably have
> their own rules.
>
> Is there something left to fix?
>
Looks like there isn't. Closing, thanks.
Cheers,
Julien
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