From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 12:31:39 +0300 Message-ID: <837djpkd8k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210522202519.32549-1-jonas@bernoul.li> <83fsyej6bc.fsf@gnu.org> <871r9xon5v.fsf@bernoul.li> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37422"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 48592@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 11:32:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSw-0009YP-59 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 11:32:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58854 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSv-00008E-8V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSo-000083-JK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSo-0008T0-CD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSo-00053K-7G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 09:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 48592 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 48592-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B48592.162176230419400 (code B ref 48592); Sun, 23 May 2021 09:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 48592) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 May 2021 09:31:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40601 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSW-00052o-Jj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42976) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkST-00052Y-7n for 48592@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSN-0008IS-GJ; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:31:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4307 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkkSM-0002Xf-QZ; Sun, 23 May 2021 05:31:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871r9xon5v.fsf@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Sun, 23 May 2021 10:43:40 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:207078 Archived-At: > From: Jonas Bernoulli > Cc: 48592@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 10:43:40 +0200 > > >> this also adds support for using "Authors" and "Maintainers" as the > >> names of the header fields instead of just the singular forms. > > > > Why do we need these additions? > > OCD and grammar. > > > Couldn't we keep using Author and Maintainer? > > Of course. But why? To keep Emacs smaller and less complex. > > Having both variants immediately begs the question which is preferable > > and why, arguments about style, and other bikeshedding. > > The answer seems obvious to me. Do it like (nearly?) all natural > languages do it: If n=1 then singular, else (n>1) plural. > > > Unless there's a good reason for adding new headings, I'd prefer to > > make do with what we already have. > > Grammatical mistakes tend to be distracting, especially if you see the > same one over and over again, year after year. > > I was expecting this to be noncontroversial. ;) See above. But maybe I'm the odd one out here. Does anyone else have an opinion on adding these headers?