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  • non-word "noone" in constitution

    From nick black@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 4 19:00:01 2022
    i was reading our Constitution, and §5.1.4 states:

    "Make any decision for whom noone else has responsibility."

    "noone" is a non-word [0], and while i doubt it'll ever be the basis
    of a court ruling or anything, "no one" was correctly used in
    the language added to 6.3.6 by Constitution v1.8, and another
    instance of "noone" was removed from §A.1.6. so unless it
    requires a vote or something, it should probably be fixed?

    i submitted an MR to doc-debian [1], but given that we're
    currently shipping the old Constitution v1.7 to /usr/share/doc/debian/constitution.txt.gz [2], that doesn't seem
    quite authoritative.

    who would i report this bug to? "project" pseudo-package, as
    suggested in [3]?

    --nick

    [0] https://writingexplained.org/noone-or-no-one-difference
    https://grammarist.com/spelling/no-one-noone/ etc
    [1] https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/doc-debian/-/merge_requests/1
    [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23839709
    [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=210879

    --
    nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com
    to make an apple pie from scratch,
    you need first invent a universe.

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to nick black on Fri Mar 4 19:10:01 2022
    nick black <dankamongmen@gmail.com> writes:

    i was reading our Constitution, and §5.1.4 states:

    "Make any decision for whom noone else has responsibility."

    "noone" is a non-word [0], and while i doubt it'll ever be the basis of
    a court ruling or anything, "no one" was correctly used in the language
    added to 6.3.6 by Constitution v1.8, and another instance of "noone" was removed from §A.1.6. so unless it requires a vote or something, it
    should probably be fixed?

    It does alas require a vote, at least according to my reading of the constitution. We don't have a provision for making minor changes apart
    from the normal amendment process.

    --
    Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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