Re: [Debtags-devel] Re: Dummy packages and metapackages (call for consistency in the descriptions)

2005-10-29 Thread Justin B Rye
[originally to debtags-devel, reposted to CCs] >> Enrico Zini wrote: Thanks for this, Enrico! >> * Dummy packages It may be too late to standardise on "transitional packages", but I've always thought that was more self-explanatory. >> * Metapackages Adeodato Simó wrote: > Would

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-09 Thread Justin B Rye
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:20:06PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have just received a review by a l10n team of a package of mine. Well, by Christian Perrier; nobody else has had a chance to reply yet. If people with opinions on this topic want to join the d-l-e team, which mostly seems to consist

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Ian Jackson wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes ("Re: Use of the first person in messages from the > computer"): >> A computer cannot refer to itself, because it does not have a self. > > I'm sorry, but that is completely wrong. > > "README" > "drink me" > " me facit" README is itself a referenc