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Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages



Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> I tripped mentally over this several times, before I realised there's an
> ambiguous referent for “it” and “the package”. I suggest instead:

> -	  Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed
> -	  <em>and</em> configured before it can be installed. In this
> -	  case, you must specify a <tt>Pre-Depends</tt> entry for
> -	  the package.
> +	  Sometimes, unpacking a package requires that another package be
> +	  unpacked <em>and</em> configured. In this case, the dependent
> +	  package must specify this dependency in a <tt>Pre-Depends</tt>
> +	  entry.

I now have (a slight revision of) that change in my copy.  Thanks!

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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