Bug#830989: debian-policy: Typos "the the" in "4.4 Debian changelog: debian/changelog" and "8.6.3.2 The symbols File Format"
Hi!
On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 17:08:31 +0200, Valentin Samir wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> Reading the debian policy for the first time, I notice two minor typos where 'the'
> is repeated.
>
> The first time in §4.4:
> "+zzzz or -zzzz is the the time zone offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)."
Ah nice catch! I've fixed the following in dpkg's deb-changelog(5)
man page locally (and a bunch of other files which had the same typo).
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 9cd182b..61956cd 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -1799,7 +1799,7 @@ zope.
> <item>mm is the two-digit minutes (00-59)</item>
> <item>ss is the two-digit seconds (00-60)</item>
> <item>
> - +zzzz or -zzzz is the the time zone offset from Coordinated
> + +zzzz or -zzzz is the time zone offset from Coordinated
> Universal Time (UTC). "+" indicates that the time is ahead
> of (i.e., east of) UTC and "-" indicates that the time is
> behind (i.e., west of) UTC. The first two digits indicate
Thanks,
Guillem
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