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Re: [PATCH] Improve Etch Release Notes a little.



Hi,

> From: Frans Pop
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve Etch Release Notes a little.
> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:51:43 +0100
> 
> > On Sunday 04 February 2007 09:19, Kobayashi Noritada wrote:
> > > A Japanese translation reviewer TAKEI Nobumitsu suggested minor
> > > improvement of Etch Release Notes (2 months ago... ;-p) and I've
> > > created a patch based on it.  Could you please apply it?
> > 
> > To be honest, I do not think this is an improvement. It will make people 
> > wonder what the hell a "package-bar" is. Is it related to a sushi-bar 
> > maybe?
> 
> Hmm..., I should have explained more. :-)
> The mentioned sentence follows descriptions below:
> 
>           <example>
> Unpacking replacement <var>&lt;package-foo&gt;</var> ...
> dpkg: error processing <var>&lt;package-name-for-foo&gt;</var> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `<var>&lt;some-file-name&gt;</var>',
>  which is also in package <var>&lt;package-bar&gt;</var>
>           </example></p>
> 
>           <p>You can try to solve a file conflict by forcibly removing the
>           package mentioned on the <em/last/ line of the error message:
> 
> For this reason, "package_name" described here may be replaced by
> "pakcage-bar".  "package_name" in other areas are good.

So, this patch may also be good.

Thanks,

-nori
Index: en/release-notes.en.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/debian-doc/ddp/manuals.sgml/release-notes/en/release-notes.en.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.119
diff -u -r1.119 release-notes.en.sgml
--- en/release-notes.en.sgml	14 Jan 2007 23:15:42 -0000	1.119
+++ en/release-notes.en.sgml	4 Feb 2007 10:40:33 -0000
@@ -960,7 +960,10 @@
 
           <example>
 # dpkg -r --force-depends <var>package_name</var>
-          </example></p>
+          </example>
+	  
+	  (In this case, <var>package_name</var> is
+	  <var>&lt;package-bar&gt;</var> above.)</p>
 
           <p>After fixing things up, you should be able to resume the
           upgrade by repeating the previously described <tt/aptitude/

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