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Bug#69426: marked as done ([PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml)



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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 09:04:34 -0700
From: Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
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Subject: [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.2.0.0

There are a few misspellings in policy.sgml, as well as some awkward
sentences.  And the example of how to use update-rc.d when removing a
package incorrectly refers to acct instead of bind.  The following
patches fixes these problems.

Matt

--- policy.sgml.orig	Sat Aug 19 08:45:12 2000
+++ policy.sgml	Sat Aug 19 08:54:31 2000
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@
 	    
 	  <p>
 	    Every package has to specify the dependency information
-	    about other packages, that are required for the first to
+	    about other packages that are required for the first to
 	    work correctly.</p>
 	    
 	  <p>
@@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@
 	    package is purged: 
 	    <example>
 	      if [ purge = "$1" ]; then
-	      update-rc.d acct remove >/dev/null
+	      update-rc.d bind remove >/dev/null
 	      fi
 	    </example></p>
 	</sect1></sect>
@@ -2120,11 +2120,11 @@
 	  If the environment variable <tt>DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS</tt>
 	  contains the string <tt>debug</tt>, compile the software with
 	  debugging information (usually this involves adding the
-	  <tt>-g</tt> flag to <tt>CFLAGS</tt>). This allows to generate
+	  <tt>-g</tt> flag to <tt>CFLAGS</tt>). This allows the generation of
 	  a build tree with debugging information. If the environment
 	  variable <tt>DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS</tt> contains the
 	  string <tt>nostrip</tt>, do not strip the files at installation
-	  time. This allows to generate a package with debugging
+	  time. This allows the generation of a package with debugging
 	  information included. The following makefile snippet
 	  is only an example how to test for either
 	  condition:
@@ -2950,7 +2950,7 @@
 	
 	<p>
 	  The files <tt>/var/run/utmp</tt>, <tt>/var/log/wtmp</tt> and
-	  <tt>/var/log/lastlog</tt> must be installed writeable by
+	  <tt>/var/log/lastlog</tt> must be installed writable by
 	  group utmp.  Programs who need to modify those files must
 	  be installed install setgid utmp.
 	</p>
@@ -3849,7 +3849,7 @@
 	  <footnote>
 	    <p>
 	      Rationale: People should not have to look into two
-	      places ofr upstream changelogs merely because they are
+	      places for upstream changelogs merely because they are
 	      in HTML format.
 	    </p>
 	  </footnote>

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:28:04 +0100
From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
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Cc: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Subject: Closed in debian-policy 3.2.1.0
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Thanks to Manoj for closing all of these bugs in debian-policy version
3.2.1.0.

   Julian

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