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Bug#796815: lintian: Correct "The rules files appear" grammatical error in debian-rules-should-not-use-or-modify-user-only-variable



Hi Chris!

* Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, 2015-08-24, 22:12:
-Info: The rules files appear to be reading or modifying a variable not
+Info: The rules files appears to be reading or modifying a variable not

Hmm, this doesn't look right to me. You made the verb singular, but the subject is plural.

But I don't know why the subject is plural in the first place. It probably should be something like this instead:

Info: The <tt>debian/rules</tt> file appears to be ...

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Jakub Wilk


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