Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy David, Thank you for caring about the documentation and source, I am very glad of the review of my proposed changes. On 24-May-2016, David Kalnischkies wrote: > RFC2440 refers to a "key-value pair" as "Armor Header" (in that > casing). A collection of those is called "Armor Headers" – compa

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 01:32:20PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 21-May-2016, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > As an example, your changes in the context of gpgv are incorrect as > > the official term in rfc2440 for the "key-value pairs" is "Armor > > Header" not field as you suggest and even if that

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
On 21-May-2016, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Could you please split especially the first one up more? I have now updated the branch with more granular changes https://notabug.org/bignose/debian_apt/commits/wip/issue/824908/terminology-header-fields>. > As an example, your changes in the context o

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
On 21-May-2016, David Kalnischkies wrote: > (incomplete quick look) Thank you for looking and giving a prompt response. > Could you please split especially the first one up more? Yes, I'll do that. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi, (incomplete quick look) On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 04:41:19PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 21-May-2016, Ben Finney wrote: > > I will prepare a change set to correct the documentation, code > > comments, and messages emitted by APT. > > These changes are in the Git branch at > https://notabug.o

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-20 Thread Ben Finney
Control: tags -1 + patch On 21-May-2016, Ben Finney wrote: > I will prepare a change set to correct the documentation, code > comments, and messages emitted by APT. These changes are in the Git branch at https://notabug.org/bignose/debian_apt/src/wip/issue/824908/terminology-header-fields>. For

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-20 Thread Ben Finney
Package: apt Version: 1.2.12 Severity: minor The code base for APT uses the term “header” in several distinct ways. The following usages correctly refer to the singular content at the head of some data stream: * The singular header of a binary file, such as an AR archive. * The singular header