Please refer to GNU/Linux rather than Linux in docs
Bug #528253 reported by
Glenn Morris
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaar |
Fix Released
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High
|
Martin Pool | ||
Bug Description
Hi,
As was mentioned a couple of months ago on the emacs-devel mailing list
http://
there are several places in the Bazaar docs that refer to the "Linux" operating system.
One of the criteria for a GNU package is to use the term "GNU/Linux", see
http://
The relevant places are easy to find with `grep -r Linux'. Some examples:
INSTALL: "Some Linux distributions..."
doc/en/
etc
Thanks.
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Also we should not say "open source" where we mean "free software".
| Changed in bzr: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: doc easy gnu |
| description: | updated |
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| assignee: | nobody → Martin Pool (mbp) |
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| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
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| milestone: | none → 2.2b4 |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
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| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote Re: [Bug 528253] Re: Please refer to GNU/Linux rather than Linux in docs | #6 |
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A fix for this is in process.
I'm adding a reminder in the code standard that people should comply with the GNU policy.
As Glenn did in the originally linked message, I'm grepping the source and docs for the string "linux".
My general approach is:
* if you mean Unix generally, including BSD and Mac OS X, say that
* if we mean eg Ubuntu or Debian in particular, say that
* if you mean all GNU/Linux systems, say that
* if it's to match eg Python's use of 'linux2' as an identifier, use that
* if you mean systems which use the Linux kernel, say that. In the code itself there are many occurences of the string 'linux' where we actually do mean the kernel behaves in a particular way.
In the documentation most of the occurrences are sloppy and should be fixed.
There is one symbol name that needs to be changed for this, but it's private and should be harmless to change.
If I missed anything please let me know.