Re: Request for Review: APT manpages
David Kalnischkies wrote:
> So how about these two paragraphs instead:
>
> <para>
> Once the uploaded package is verified and included in the archive,
> the maintainer signature is stripped off, and checksums of the package
> are computed and put in the Packages file. The checksums of all of the
> Packages files are then computed and put into the Release file. The
> Release file is then signed by the archive key for this Debian release
Maybe add a comma at the end of this line, but otherwise it's good.
> and distributed alongside the packages and the Packages files on
> Debian mirrors. The keys are in the Debian archive keyring available in
> the <package>debian-archive-keyring</package> package.
> </para>
[...]
> <para>
> End users can check the signature of the Release file, extract a checksum
> of a package from it, and compare it with the checksum of the package
> they downloaded by hand - or rely on APT doing this automatically.
> </para>
>
> (I am not particularly happy with the end of the sentence,
> but i don't really know why)
It sounds okay to me; but maybe it's something to do with the elided
subject. If so, maybe you would be happier with:
[...] - or they can rely on APT doing this automatically.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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