[Popcon-developers] Bug#414340: package description refers to "us", Debian developers

[Philippe Cloutier]

Bill Allombert a écrit :

>On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:29:24AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
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>>Package: popularity-contest
>>Version: 1.40
>>Severity: minor
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>>The package description should refer to Debian as "Debian" or "the Debian
>>project", not as "us". "us" is like "we". "We" can talk about "we" among
>>"ourselves", but not to users. At best, this is informal.
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>Hello Filipus,
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>How do you suggest to write the description then ?
>
Hi Bill,
the new description committed by Christian solves the problem I 
reported. Merci bubulle.
I have no strong opinion about whether removing Debian completely from 
the package description is a good idea. Distros with their own popcon 
will need to modify the package anyway, so modifying the description 
should be no big deal. It can also be good to mention Debian instead of 
"this distribution" so that the description doesn't lie to users of Yet 
Another Attempt At A Debian-Based Distro, which doesn't have the 
resources to either remove popcon or modify it. Even though these users 
probably asked for trouble :)

Cheers