[patch] add applications - tarballs

[Rocco Stanzione]

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:31, Matthew East wrote:
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> I'm not quite sure of the right way to do this. We could probably
> enclose the words .rpm and .deb with <emphasis> tags to give them
> italics. What I'm concerned by is that several sentences begin with
> these words, and it looks odd to have them lower case, beginning with a
> period. I'm not sure if the styleguide gives us any guidance here.
> Perhaps RPM and DEB is the way to go. What do other people think?

RPM is an acronym (Redhat Package Manager), so it might make sense in all 
caps, but deb is not.  This is a brain tickler.  I noticed that both IBM and 
Debian tend to refer to them in their documentation as "Debian packages" (see 
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.html and 
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336) but that could be 
misleading since we're referring to Ubuntu packages.  I don't have any great 
ideas at the moment on how to solve this.

Rocco Stanzione