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Bug#565391: console-setup: typo in FAQ



On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:49:40AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> Attached are two (mutually exclusive) patches to address this:
> 
>  * spell-check-FAQ only fixes spelling errors reported by hunspell.
> 
>  * copy-edit-FAQ fixes all the awkward usages I found in a read
>    through the text.
> 
> I didn't touch the semantics (except to change "some distributions" to
> "some setups" where the latter meaning was clearer) but I was tempted
> to:
> 
>  1.1: update to reflect the current state of the i810 driver and
>       in-kernel mode setting support
> 
>  2.2: mention this is a Linux limitation; point to upstream discussion
>       about whether or how to fix it.  If there hasn't been such a
>       discussion, there should be one. ;-)
> 
>  2.4: point out bug #547073.  That is an init bug, not a Linux bug, and
>       it is already fixed in Debian testing.
> 
> What do you think?  I would be tempted to fix some of these and then
> abuse the services of debian-l10n-en to clean up the result. :-)

Please fix them - I appreciate your work. :) Are you sure about the dots 
at the end of the titles?

I somehow doubt about using debian-l10n-en - this will make me hesitate 
if I want to edit something in the FAQ.  Now I noticed that #535834 
needs to be documented too.

Anton Zinoviev



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