Replace 'Debian GNU/Linux' with 'Debian' (except at one place). Thanks to 'victory...

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@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ before they are applied. This is even true if you happen to have
 SVN access for other reasons.
 
 
+* Writing style
+
+Please use gender-neutral formulations. This means avoiding
+pronouns like he/she when referring to a role (like "maintainer")
+whose gender is unknown. Instead of you should use the
+plural form (singular they [1]).
+
+[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
+
+
 * SVN
 
 If you're interested in ongoing maintenance, once you've shown that
@@ -72,5 +82,5 @@ We have tried to keep language-independant bits of text in common.ent.
 Feel free to truck stuff out of the English manual into common.ent if
 it's useful, or else report the problem.
 
-The translation .po files are in po4a/fr/ and po4a/ja/ for French and
-Japanese. We hope very much for more translations.
+The translation PO files are in po4a/po/, we hope very much for more
+translations.