Bug#69670: marked as done ([PATCH] more corrections)
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From: Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
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Subject: [PATCH] more corrections
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The following patch corrects a misspelling and some other grammatical
mistakes in policy.sgml.
Matt
--- policy.sgml.orig Mon Aug 21 08:39:22 2000
+++ policy.sgml Mon Aug 21 10:00:52 2000
@@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@
</footnote>
<p>
- The other way to do it is to via the maintainer scripts.
+ The other way to do it is via the maintainer scripts.
In this case, the configuration file must not be listed as
a <tt>conffile</tt> and must not be part of the package
distribution. If the existence of a file is required for
@@ -2616,7 +2616,7 @@
responsibility of the package maintainer to write scripts
which correctly create, update, maintain and
remove-on-purge the file. These scripts must be idempotent
- (i.e. must work correctly if <prgn>dpkg</prgn> needs to
+ (i.e., must work correctly if <prgn>dpkg</prgn> needs to
re-run them due to errors during installation or removal),
must cope with all the variety of ways <prgn>dpkg</prgn>
can call maintainer scripts, must not overwrite or
@@ -2667,7 +2667,7 @@
If two or more packages use the same configuration file
and it is reasonable for both to be installed at the same
time, one of these packages must be defined as
- <em>owner</em> of the configuration file, i.e. it will be
+ <em>owner</em> of the configuration file, i.e., it will be
the package to list that distributes the file and lists it
as a <tt>conffile</tt>. Other packages that use the
configuration file must depend on the owning package if
@@ -2736,7 +2736,7 @@
<p>
Therefore, if a program in a Debian package needs to be
- configured in some way in order to operate sensibly that
+ configured in some way in order to operate sensibly, that
configuration should be done in a site-wide global
configuration file elsewhere in <tt>/etc</tt>. Only if the
program doesn't support a site-wide default configuration
@@ -3016,8 +3016,8 @@
programs.</p>
<p>
- If it is very hard to adapt a program to make us of the
- EDITOR and PAGER variable, that program may be configured
+ If it is very hard to adapt a program to make use of the
+ EDITOR and PAGER variables, that program may be configured
to use <tt>/usr/bin/sensible-editor</tt> and
<tt>/usr/bin/sensible-pager</tt> as editor or pager program,
respectively. These are two scripts provided in the Debian
@@ -3611,7 +3611,7 @@
page'.</p>
<p>
- Each program, utiltiy, and function should have an
+ Each program, utility, and function should have an
associated manpage included in the same package. It is
suggested that all configuration files also have a manual
page included as well.
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
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Cc: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Subject: Closed in debian-policy 3.2.1.0
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Thanks to Manoj for closing all of these bugs in debian-policy version
3.2.1.0.
Julian
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