On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:

>  * &entity questions - when am I meant to say "Debian" and when is it
>       "&debian;"?  This like many of these entities seems to have no
>       obvious function other than to make the source harder to
>       interpret...
>  * The &d-i; entity expands to "debian-installer" in bold verbatim
>       lowercase.  If that is in effect the brandname of the software
>       project then presumably we shouldn't be talking about "the
>       &d-i;" - that ought to be "the Debian installer".

Presumably both of these parametrisations are for the convenience of 
Debian derivatives and forks.  By making these macros, it's easier for 
the, and it'll be easier for us to merge downstream patches.

-- hendrik


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