Bug#547477: update-manager-gnome: "which does neither remove" - -EENGLISH

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu27 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 22:22:32 UTC 2009


Steve Langasek wrote:
> Launching update-manager is sid gives me the following message:
> 
>   Do you want to perform a safe-upgrade, which does neither remove packages
>   nor install new ones?
> 
> Aside from "safe-upgrade" being aptitude-specific jargon that doesn't belong
> here, this is not proper English.  It should be written:
> 
>   Do you want to perform a safe-upgrade, which does not remove packages
>   or install new ones?

Just curious, is this a matter of British/American English? I was taught in
school the former option is fine IIRC.

Cheers,
Emilio

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/attachments/20090921/8cdd60a6/attachment.pgp>


More information about the pkg-gnome-maintainers mailing list