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Re: [bug-womb] [PATCH] Spelling mistake
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [bug-womb] [PATCH] Spelling mistake |
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Sat, 09 Nov 2013 17:51:52 +0100 |
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Hello!
address@hidden (Karl Berry) skribis:
> You say "etc." as if there was some general rule about how to capitalize
> package names. There isn't.
Sorry for making it negative-sounding. I wrote “etc.” because I had
noticed a few capitalization issues with Guile-related packages; of
course you’re right there are often many inconsistencies.
> Also, some package names and blurbs start with “GNU ” while most don’t.
>
> Package names and blurbs are two quite different things. The idea for
> package names is to be the same as "package identifier" except for
> capitalization. (And no, package identifiers themselves are far from
> perfectly applied, which I try to incrementally work on cleaning up when
> I can, but the situation remains messy, and probably always will.)
OK.
> In the case of blurbs, it may not look like it, but I actually did make
> a pass through the file adding "GNU" to the front of a blurb where I
> thought it was warranted, which was in about 2/3 of the cases. It is
> clearly a judgement call and I'm sure I made plenty of errors, but as an
> example of a case where I think it would be wrong:
> blurb: Bash is the shell, or command-line interpreter, of the GNU system. ...
>
> Here, the repetition of "GNU" would read badly.
>
> Another example:
> blurb: Spell is a command-line spell-checking program. It reads through a
>
> Here, the blurb is written to talk about the program, which has a number
> of instantations, its GNU version being just one. Could the text be
> rewritten so a leading "GNU" would be appropriate? Sure. ("The GNU
> Spell package contains ..."). Is it worth the trouble? Not in my
> humble opinion :).
Right, that makes sense to me.
Next time I synchronize blurbs with Guix I’ll report any issues that I
think may have been overlooked.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply!
Ludo’.