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Re: Typo in www.debian.org



On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 06:40:22PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:47:38PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > I found 26 times "can not" instead of "cannot" in the website. Since I
> > do not remember whether this should be fixed in mail.wml files I post this
> > here ...
> 
> The Chicago Manual of Style says that it's OK to fix simple errors
> like those, so please do so.

I committed the changes including

Index: english/devel/website/using_cvs.wml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/website/using_cvs.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -u -r1.12 -r1.13
--- english/devel/website/using_cvs.wml 20 Apr 2004 09:51:39 -0000      1.12
+++ english/devel/website/using_cvs.wml 21 Aug 2004 09:38:07 -0000      1.13
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 you have access to another account which gives you write permission to
 the repository then you should use that account instead. If you
 are planning on making changes, you should get an account before
-starting as anonymous users can not commit changes.  See <a
+starting as anonymous users cannot commit changes.  See <a
 href="#write-access">the section on write access</a> for more
 information.

Maybe this should be rewritten such as

"starting as anonymous as this user cannot commit changes."

or at least a comma or &mdash; should be inserted, am I right?

Jens



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