[Logcheck-devel] Bug#472937: logcheck: minor grammar mistake in header.txt

[Justin Pryzby]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:51:18PM +0200, Jonathan Hitchcock wrote:

> /etc/logcheck/header.txt has the phrase "If you wish to no-longer
> receive it", which is a bit klunky (and, let's be honest, it splits
> an infinitive).  Also, "no-longer" is not a hyphenated word.
Hmm, what infinitive?  I think an infinitive is "to XX", but "to wish"
isn't what's used.

> Could we change it to "If you no longer wish to receive it"?  It's
> one step closer to Debian perfection!
I would phrase it in the positive: "If you wish to stop receiving it"
or "stop generating it" or "disable it"...  Otherwise "no longer wish"
is just a lack of a wish, rather than a wish for the inverse.