Subject: pkg/24400: "suffixes" is the correct plural for "suffix"
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <tv@duh.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/12/2004 08:10:49
>Number: 24400
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: "suffixes" is the correct plural for "suffix"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 12 13:12:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Todd Vierling
>Release: NetBSD 1.6.2
>Organization:
DUH.ORG: Pointing out the obvious since 1994.
>Environment:
>Description:
Since pkgsrc has a history of nitpicking its variable names' correctness
of grammar... 8-)
In bsd.pkg.mk, introduced in 1.884 (whee, that was a while ago):
_EXTRACT_SUFFICES+= ...
According to M-W and OED, "suffices" is not a correct plural of the noun
"suffix"; rather, it is the singular present tense of the verb "suffice".
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Change to:
_EXTRACT_SUFFIXES+= ...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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