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Bug#169744: debian-policy: typos in policy.sgml



Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.8.0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hello maintainers,
Here is a diff from policy.sgml cvs version 1.81.
fixing typos.
Best regards,

Philippe Batailler.



*** diff-policy
--- policy.sgml	Tue Nov 19 14:23:42 2002
+++ policy-new.sgml	Tue Nov 19 14:23:15 2002
@@ -4739,7 +4739,7 @@
 		if [ "$1" = purge ]; then
 		update-rc.d <var>package</var> remove
 		fi
-	      </example>. Note that is your package changes runlevels
+	      </example>. Note that if your package changes runlevels
 		  or priority, you may have to remove and recreate the
 		  links, since otherwise the old links may
 		  persist. Refer to the documentation of
@@ -7519,7 +7519,7 @@
 
 	<p>
 	  Info documents should be installed in <file>/usr/share/info</file>.
-	  They should be compressed with <tt>gzip -9</tt>.</p>
+	  They should be compressed with <prgn>gzip</prgn><tt>-9</tt>.</p>
 
 	<p>
 	  Your package should call <prgn>install-info</prgn> to update
@@ -7564,7 +7564,7 @@
 	  Text documentation should be installed in the directory
 	  <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file>, where
 	  <var>package</var> is the name of the package, and
-	  compressed with <tt>gzip -9</tt> unless it is small.</p>
+	  compressed with <prgn>gzip</prgn><tt>-9</tt> unless it is small.</p>
 
 	<p>
 	  If a package comes with large amounts of documentation which
@@ -7594,7 +7594,7 @@
 	  Any files that are referenced by programs but are also
 	  useful as standalone documentation should be installed under
 	  <file>/usr/share/doc/</file> with symbolic links from
-	  <file>/usr/share/doc/&lt;package&gt;</file>
+	  <file>/usr/share/doc/<var> or &lt;package or &gt; see next paragraph</var></file>
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
@@ -7742,7 +7742,7 @@
             contact the <package>dpkg</package> maintainer to have the
             parser script for it included in the <prgn>dpkg</prgn> package.
             (You will need to agree that the parser and its manpage may be
-            distributed under the GNU GPL, just as the rest of `dpkg' is.)
+            distributed under the GNU GPL, just as the rest of <prgn>dpkg</prgn> is.)
             </p>
           </footnote>
 	</p>
@@ -7777,8 +7777,8 @@
 
 	<p>
 	  All of these files should be installed compressed using
-	  <tt>gzip -9</tt>, as they will become large with time even
-	  if they start out small.
+	  <prgn>gzip</prgn><tt>-9</tt>, as they will become large with time 
+          even if they start out small.
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
@@ -9444,7 +9444,7 @@
 	    <item>
 
 	      <p>
-		This is a compressed (with <tt>gzip -9</tt>)
+		This is a compressed (with <prgn>gzip</prgn><tt>-9</tt>)
 		<prgn>tar</prgn> file containing the source code from
 		the upstream authors of the program.  The tarfile
 		unpacks into a directory


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux clalis 2.2.20 #1 Mon Nov 18 21:55:40 CET 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro



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