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

Bill Allombert Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Wed Mar 14 00:38:51 CET 2007


On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:29:24AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.40
> Severity: minor
> 
> 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.

Hello Filipus,

How do you suggest to write the description then ?

 The popularity-contest package sets up a cron job that will
 periodically anonymously submit to the Debian developers
 statistics about the most used Debian packages on this system.
 .
 This information helps us making decisions such as which packages
 should go on the first CD. It also lets us improve future versions
 of Debian so that the most popular packages are the ones which are
 installed automatically for new users.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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