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.
 
 
 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
 * 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.
 
 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.