Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, I checked the policy for spelling mistakes and made the use of 'behavior' and 'debianised' consistent. Patch is attached. Kind regards Nico -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Nico Golde - JAB: nion@jabber.ccc.de | GPG: 0x73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org Forget about that mouse with 3/4/5 buttons - gimme a keyboard with 103/104/105 keys!
diff -Nur debian-policy-3.7.2.1/policy-process.sgml debian-policy-3.7.2.1.copy/policy-process.sgml
--- debian-policy-3.7.2.1/policy-process.sgml 2006-04-26 07:21:14.000000000 +0200
+++ debian-policy-3.7.2.1.copy/policy-process.sgml 2006-06-27 21:59:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
</p>
<p>
Since the policy maintainers have no special powers, there
- is no restriction of their participattion the discussion. It
+ is no restriction of their participation the discussion. It
is preferable to have at least 4-5 people on the job,
perhaps closer to 8, so that policy does not languish when
any maintainer goes missing (we do need vacations, you know,
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
advisable, but by no means mandatory, that the proposer
tries an idea out on the mailing list, which can help flesh
out details rapidly, and test the sentiment and the
- collective wisdom of the list. Discussion may be intiated by
+ collective wisdom of the list. Discussion may be initiated by
any member of the list.
</p>
<p>
diff -Nur debian-policy-3.7.2.1/policy.sgml debian-policy-3.7.2.1.copy/policy.sgml
--- debian-policy-3.7.2.1/policy.sgml 2006-06-20 07:20:13.000000000 +0200
+++ debian-policy-3.7.2.1.copy/policy.sgml 2006-06-27 22:03:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@
Essential is defined as the minimal set of functionality
that must be available and usable on the system even
when packages are in an unconfigured (but unpacked)
- state. This is nedeed to avoid unresolvable dependency
+ state. This is needed to avoid unresolvable dependency
loops on upgrade. If packages add unnecessary
dependencies on packages in this set, the chances that
there <strong>will</strong> be an unresolvable
@@ -2023,8 +2023,8 @@
<p>
This is an optional, recommended control file for the
- <tt>uscan</tt> ustility which defines how to automatically
- scan ftp ot http sites for newly available updates of the
+ <tt>uscan</tt> utility which defines how to automatically
+ scan ftp or http sites for newly available updates of the
package. This is used by <url id="
http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/";> and other Debian QA tools
to help with quality control and maintenance of the
@@ -2673,7 +2673,7 @@
<var>upstream_version</var> may not contain a hyphen.
This format represents the case where a piece of
software was written specifically to be turned into a
- Debian package, and so there is only one "debianization"
+ Debian package, and so there is only one "debianisation"
of it and therefore no revision indication is required.
</p>
@@ -3991,7 +3991,7 @@
point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
dependencies being present when being installed or removed,
depending on which side of the break of the circular
- dependcy loop they happen to be on.
+ dependency loop they happen to be on.
</p>
<p>
@@ -5127,7 +5127,7 @@
<p>
The location of all installed files and directories must
comply with the File system Hierarchy Standard (FHS),
- version 2.3, with the exceptiions noted below, and except
+ version 2.3, with the exceptions noted below, and except
where doing so would violate other terms of Debian
Policy. The following exceptions to the FHS apply:
@@ -5163,7 +5163,7 @@
<item>
<p>
The requirement that
- <file>/usr/local/share/man</file> be "synonomous"
+ <file>/usr/local/share/man</file> be "synonymous"
with <file>/usr/local/man</file> is relaxed to a
recommendation</p>
</item>
@@ -5468,7 +5468,7 @@
of simplicity, this document describes only the symbolic
link method. However, it must not be assumed by maintainer
scripts that this method is being used, and any automated
- manipulation of the various runlevel behaviours by
+ manipulation of the various runlevel behaviors by
maintainer scripts must be performed using
<prgn>update-rc.d</prgn> as described below and not by
manually installing or removing symlinks. For information
@@ -5644,7 +5644,7 @@
<p>
Often there are some variables in the <file>init.d</file>
- scripts whose values control the behaviour of the scripts,
+ scripts whose values control the behavior of the scripts,
and which a system administrator is likely to want to
change. As the scripts themselves are frequently
<tt>conffile</tt>s, modifying them requires that the
@@ -7116,7 +7116,7 @@
<p>
Furthermore, programs should be configured by the Debian
default installation to behave as closely to the upstream
- default behaviour as possible.
+ default behavior as possible.
</p>
<p>
@@ -7277,7 +7277,7 @@
normally have their permissions reset to the distributed
permissions when the package is reinstalled. However,
the use of <prgn>dpkg-statoverride</prgn> overrides this
- default behaviour. If you use this method, you should
+ default behavior. If you use this method, you should
remember to describe <prgn>dpkg-statoverride</prgn> in
the package documentation; being a relatively new
addition to Debian, it is probably not yet well-known.
@@ -7908,7 +7908,7 @@
"view" in a multiple-document interface (MDI).
</footnote>
and runs the specified <var>command</var>,
- interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command
+ interpreting the entirety of the rest of the command
line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the
manner that <tt>xterm</tt> does.
</item>
@@ -7975,7 +7975,7 @@
For the purposes of Debian Policy, a "font for the X
Window System" is one which is accessed via X protocol
requests. Fonts for the Linux console, for PostScript
- renderers, or any other purpose, do not fit this
+ renderer, or any other purpose, do not fit this
definition. Any tool which makes such fonts available
to the X Window System, however, must abide by this
font policy.
@@ -8771,7 +8771,7 @@
<p>
This manual describes the technical aspects of creating Debian
binary packages (<file>.deb</file> files). It documents the
- behaviour of the package management programs
+ behavior of the package management programs
<prgn>dpkg</prgn>, <prgn>dselect</prgn> et al. and the way
they interact with packages.</p>
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