Re: Bug#1036776: release-notes: Release notes paragraph from Debian Med team
Hi Justin,
Am Sat, May 27, 2023 at 04:42:32AM +0100 schrieb Justin B Rye:
> Andreas Tille wroteL
> > Please add the following patch from the Debian Med team to the release notes:
>
> Some English-usage suggestions:
Thanks a lot for looking onto the text in "pedantic mode". ;-) I'm not
a native speaker and its perfectly welcome if someone with better language
is polishing my scribbling. So I simply ACK all those enhancements.
> > <title>News from Debian Med Blend</title>
> >
> > <para>
> > As in every release new packages in the field of life sciences and medicine
> > were added.
>
> "Have been" added, and I think it works better as
ACK.
> As in every release new packages have been added in the fields of medicine
> and life sciences.
>
> > The new package shiny-server might be worth extra mentioning
>
> The new package <systemitem role="package">shiny-server</systemitem>
> might be worth a particular mention,
>
> (Or "might be particularly worth mentioning", among other options.)
ACK
> > since it simplifies scientific web applications using R.
>
> (Is it worth reorganising that into something like "since it makes it
> simpler for scientific web applications to use R" or am I only
> noticing it because I'm reading in pedant mode?)
>
> > We kept on to get
> > Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained by the Debian Med
> > team.
>
> It's not clear whether this means that you maintained the effort and
> as a result got CI support or whether CI support is something you
> already had that you kept going. Maybe:
> We also kept up the
> effort to provide Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained
> by the Debian Med team.
This is definitely the better wording which describes what I intended to write.
> > </para><para>
> > The Debian Med team is continuously interested in feedback from users
> > specifically in the form of requesting the packaging of not yet packaged
> > free software or backports from new packages or higher versions in unstable.
> > </para><para>
>
> This needs at least one extra comma; maybe even:
ACK.
> The Debian Med team is always interested in feedback from users,
> especially in the form of requests for packaging of not-yet-packaged
> free software, or for backports from new packages or higher versions
> in unstable.
>
> (Are you *allowed* to put things in stable-backports if there's no
> version in stable?)
Yes, stable-backports is required to have this package in testing. This
might be higher versions than in stable or packages which are not
available in stable.
> > To install packages maintained by the Debian Med team, install the
> > metapackages named med-*, which are at version 3.8.x for Debian bookworm.
> > Feel free to visit the
> > <ulink url="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks">Debian Med tasks pages</ulink>
> > to see the full range of biological and medical software available in Debian.
> > </para>
>
> This all looks good; I suppose med-* gets a
> <replaceable>*</replaceable> but no <systemitem role="package"> tags.
I admit I'm not very deep in these tags - thus feel free to pick the proper
one.
Thanks a lot for your comments and for your work on the release notes
Andreas.
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