Bug#878360: debdate: Change package description to eg "Convert Gregorian dates to Debian Release dates"

2017-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
> Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > > Of course, I agree that having a king would be pretty bad for Debian, Why bad? It's not like kingdoms ruled by Linus Torvalds or Larry Wall fare worse than democracies. And the licenses allow you to rebel by making a fork -- kind of like the explicit right of

Bug#878360: debdate: Change package description to eg "Convert Gregorian dates to Debian Release dates"

2017-10-13 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Elena, > I've tried to look for another name for this kind of dating, but it > seems to me that at least on the historical articles on wikipedia > "regnal" is the standard name used I've found using or citing Wikipedia for meta things like this can be quite misleading; all it needs is one

Bug#878360: debdate: Change package description to eg "Convert Gregorian dates to Debian Release dates"

2017-10-13 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
Package: debdate Severity: wishlist As discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877404 there is a request not to use a name that is suggestive of a monarchy. Of course, I agree that having a king would be pretty bad for Debian, altought considering what the release names