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Package: automake
Version: 1:1.13.2-1
Severity: minor
/usr/share/doc/automake/README contains:
For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package,
that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
which is incorrect English, AFAIK. It seems that the word "note" is
missing before "that" (or "that" should be removed), according to
results of
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22For+any+copyright+year+range+specified%22
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages automake depends on:
ii autoconf 2.69-1
ii autotools-dev 20120608.1
automake recommends no packages.
automake suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1:1.16.5-1.3
On 2013-05-30 16:02:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> /usr/share/doc/automake/README contains:
>
> For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package,
> that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
>
> which is incorrect English, AFAIK. It seems that the word "note" is
> missing before "that" (or "that" should be removed), according to
> results of
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22For+any+copyright+year+range+specified%22
This was fixed at least in bookworm, where the text is
For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package,
the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
i.e. "that" has been removed.
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