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

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
[…]
> @@ -1079,10 +1079,10 @@
>  	</p>
>  
>  	<p>
> -	  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, a package requires another package to be unpacked
> +	  <em>and</em> configured before it can be unpacked.  In this
> +	  case, the dependent package must specify this dependency in
> +	  the <tt>Pre-Depends</tt> control field.
>  	</p>

The first sentence there still suffers from the ambiguous reference (the
“it” in “before it can be unpacked”) that tripped me up when reading. 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 one package requires that another package
+	  be first unpacked <em>and</em> configured.  In this case, the
+	  dependent package must specify this dependency in the
+	  <tt>Pre-Depends</tt> control field.

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