Re: [bug-womb] [PATCH] Spelling mistake

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

address@hidden (Karl Berry) skribis:

> You say "etc." as if there was some general rule about how to capitalize
> package names.  There isn't.

Sorry for making it negative-sounding.  I wrote “etc.” because I had
noticed a few capitalization issues with Guile-related packages; of
course you’re right there are often many inconsistencies.

>     Also, some package names and blurbs start with “GNU ” while most don’t.
>
> Package names and blurbs are two quite different things.  The idea for
> package names is to be the same as "package identifier" except for
> capitalization.  (And no, package identifiers themselves are far from
> perfectly applied, which I try to incrementally work on cleaning up when
> I can, but the situation remains messy, and probably always will.)

OK.

> In the case of blurbs, it may not look like it, but I actually did make
> a pass through the file adding "GNU" to the front of a blurb where I
> thought it was warranted, which was in about 2/3 of the cases.  It is
> clearly a judgement call and I'm sure I made plenty of errors, but as an
> example of a case where I think it would be wrong:
> blurb: Bash is the shell, or command-line interpreter, of the GNU system.  ...
>
> Here, the repetition of "GNU" would read badly.
>
> Another example:
> blurb: Spell is a command-line spell-checking program.  It reads through a
>
> Here, the blurb is written to talk about the program, which has a number
> of instantations, its GNU version being just one.  Could the text be
> rewritten so a leading "GNU" would be appropriate?  Sure.  ("The GNU
> Spell package contains ...").  Is it worth the trouble?  Not in my
> humble opinion :).

Right, that makes sense to me.

Next time I synchronize blurbs with Guix I’ll report any issues that I
think may have been overlooked.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

Ludo’.