Re: Debian Constitution: supercede or supersede?

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Jens Seidel wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:51:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
>> Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I wonder about the usage of supercede. Is it OK to replace it by (or with 
>> > :-?)
>> > supersede?
>> 
>> Amazingly, LEO is actually correct for once.  Yes, strictly speaking
>> AIUI, that should be supersede.
>
> Ah, so my assumption was true :-) Good to know.
>
>> Manoj will have to rule whether it requires a vote to fix a typo.
>
> Since a similar fix by mondo occurred already in r1.15 of
> devel/constitution.wml (there happened even more typo and formatting fixes in
> the past) and since only the header of the file is affected I see no problem.
>
> Another minor issue:
> http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution.1.2.en.htmlcontains:
> "Version 1.1"
> "Version 1.0"
> but
> "version 1.3"
> "current version, 1.4"
>
> (inconsistent capitalisation).
>
> Manoj?

Minor typo fixes do not need a vote (spelling corrections, case
 corrections, etc), as long as the meaning is not changed. Some times
 punctuation makes a difference (placing a comma can change the
 meaning), but that certainly does not seem to be the case here. Please
 go ahead, and thanks for the cleanup work.

manoj
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Re: Debian Constitution: supercede or supersede?

[Jens Seidel]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:51:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I wonder about the usage of supercede. Is it OK to replace it by (or with 
> > :-?)
> > supersede?
> 
> Amazingly, LEO is actually correct for once.  Yes, strictly speaking
> AIUI, that should be supersede.

Ah, so my assumption was true :-) Good to know.
 
> Manoj will have to rule whether it requires a vote to fix a typo.

Since a similar fix by mondo occurred already in r1.15 of
devel/constitution.wml (there happened even more typo and formatting fixes in
the past) and since only the header of the file is affected I see no problem.

Another minor issue:
http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution.1.2.en.html
contains:
"Version 1.1"
"Version 1.0"
but
"version 1.3"
"current version, 1.4"

(inconsistent capitalisation).

Manoj?

Jens


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Re: Debian Constitution: supercede or supersede?

[MJ Ray]

Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder about the usage of supercede. Is it OK to replace it by (or with :-?)
> supersede?

Amazingly, LEO is actually correct for once.  Yes, strictly speaking
AIUI, that should be supersede.

Manoj will have to rule whether it requires a vote to fix a typo.

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Debian Constitution: supercede or supersede?

[Jens Seidel]

Hi,

I wonder about the usage of supercede. Is it OK to replace it by (or with :-?)
supersede?

http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=315841&idForum=1&lp=ende&lang=de
contains a discussion which indicates that "supersede" is never wrong whereas
"supercede" *could* be considered as typo.

$ grep -ri supercede english/
english/security/2008/dsa-1662.wml:DSA-1608-1.  This new update supercedes that 
fix and mitigates both
english/devel/constitution.1.2.wml:That was superceded by the current version, 1.4
english/devel/constitution.1.0.wml:That was superceded by the current version
english/devel/constitution.1.3.wml:That was superceded by the current version, 1.4
english/devel/constitution.1.1.wml:That was superceded by the current version, 1.4

Jens


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