Package: apt-offline
Version: 1.7.1.1
Severity: minor

Hi

I would really like if your documentation, including the package
descriptions, would stop using the word "signature".

In the real world, this word is used for some identity specific compact
piece of information, it's basically static and is used "one way", i.e.
does not serve further purposes except for verification of the identity.

Your "signature" is simply meaning "download list". Not sure why you
picked exactly that word (maybe because it sounds more sophisticated
than simple "download script/project/list/whatever/...") but it is
obviously not there for identification verification purposes and it's
not static (changes after every upgrade, right?).

So it is WRONG and probably hurts the eyes of every techie person.

Regards,
Eduard.

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Debian Release: stretch/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-rc3+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages apt-offline depends on:
ii  apt                                    1.3
ii  less                                   481-2.1
ii  libpython2.7-stdlib [python-argparse]  2.7.12-3
ii  python                                 2.7.11-2
ii  python-magic                           1:5.28-4
pn  python:any                             <none>

Versions of packages apt-offline recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2014.3
ii  python-lzma             0.5.3-3
ii  python-soappy           0.12.22-1

apt-offline suggests no packages.

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