Bug#377387: [Adduser-devel] Bug#377387: Improvements for the program output

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Sun Jul 9 17:00:31 UTC 2006


On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:27:12PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote:
> On Saturday 08 July 2006 18:32, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote:
> > > 1. UID/GID are not written in uppercase everywhere (uid/gid appears as
> > > well)
> >
> > I am not sure wheter it would be better to write uid/gid. Is there an
> > accepted standard for thhis writing?
> 
> No, none that I'm aware of. If you think that uid/gid would be better, feel 
> free to change the uppercase UID/GID to lowercase. The main point here was 
> to keep the messages consistent.

the man page for setuid uses the capitalized form as well. So you're
right.

> > the moment.
> 
> OK.

A real no-brainer, your patch is of course perfectly valid.

I have applied your patch in svn. However, I am still not comfortable
with some of our strings and will thus run the code past
debian-l10n-english before the next upload.

Greetings
Marc

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