[Popcon-developers] Bug#348329: popularity-contest: Spelling fixes for document 'FAQ'
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.32
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hello,
Please find attached a patch that fixes some spelling and other language
errors in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.
bye,
Thijs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.67 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.13.11.1 package maintenance system for Deb
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-92 management of regular background p
pn mime-construct <none> (no description available)
hi postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.2.8-4 A high-performance mail transport
-- debconf information excluded
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--- FAQ.orig 2006-01-15 11:03:04.000000000 +0100
+++ FAQ 2006-01-15 11:13:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,47 +1,47 @@
Popularity-contest Frequently Asked Questions.
-Q) What informations are reported by popularity-contest ?
+Q) What information is reported by popularity-contest ?
-A) popularity-contest report the Debian architecture you use, the version of
+A) popularity-contest reports the system architecture you use, the version of
popularity-contest you use and the list of packages installed on your
- system. For each packages, popularity-contest looks at the most recently
- used (based on atime) files, and report the filename, its last access time
+ system. For each package, popularity-contest looks at the most recently
+ used (based on atime) files, and reports the filename, its last access time
(atime) and last change time (ctime). However, some files are not considered,
because they have unreliable atime.
-Q) What are the privacy consideration for popularity-contest ?
+Q) What are the privacy considerations for popularity-contest ?
A) Each popularity-contest host is identified by a random 128bit uuid
(MY_HOSTID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf). This uuid is used to
- track submission issued by the same host. It should be kept secret.
+ track submissions issued by the same host. It should be kept secret.
The reports are sent by email or HTTP to the popcon server. The
- server automatically extract the report from the email or HTTP and
- store it in a database for a maximum of 20 days or until the host
- send a new report. This database is readable only by Debian
+ server automatically extracts the report from the email or HTTP and
+ stores it in a database for a maximum of 20 days or until the host
+ sends a new report. This database is readable only by Debian
Developers. The emails are readable only by the server admins.
- Every day, the server compute a summary and post it on
+ Every day, the server computes a summary and posts it on
<http://popcon.debian.org/all-popcon-results.txt.gz>. This summary
is a merge of all the submissions and does not include uuids.
- Known weakness of the system:
+ Known weaknesses of the system:
1) Your email submission might be intercepted. We evaluate the possibility
to use public-key cryptography to protect the email.
- 2) Someone who know you are very likely to use a particular package reported
+ 2) Someone who knows that you are very likely to use a particular package reported
by only one person (e.g. you are the maintainer) might infer you are not at
home when the package is not reported anymore. However this is only a
problem if you are gone for more than two weeks if the computer is shut-down
- and 23 days if it is let idle.
+ and 23 days if it is let idle.
3) Unofficial and local packages are reported. This can be an issue
- especially with 2) above, especially for custom-build kernel packages.
+ especially with 2) above, especially for custom-built kernel packages.
We are evaluating how far we can alleviate this problem.
Q) My submissions bounce with
550 [PERMFAIL] popcon.debian.org requires valid sender domain.
-A) when submitting using email, popularity-contest send the report as
+A) when submitting using email, popularity-contest sends the report as
root but the email address of the root user was not configured
properly. With exim, you can add an entry for root in
/etc/email-addresses with a suitable address.
@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@
A) popularity-contest is run by the weekly cron job
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest.
-Under the default configuration of cron, this happens every sundays
+Under the default configuration of cron, this happens every Sunday
at 6:47 in the morning. This can be changed by editing /etc/crontab
but if your computer is not always turned on, we really recommend you
install the anacron package.
-Q) I don't want popcon email to be send by root! How can I send that ?
+Q) I don't want popcon email to be sent by root! How can I change that ?
A) To send as user 'myuser', edit the function 'do_sendmail' in
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest to
@@ -76,15 +76,15 @@
su myuser -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi \"$MAILTO\""
}
-Make sure myuser account is properly configured to send email with a valid
+Make sure the myuser account is properly configured to send email with a valid
return address.
-Q) My system are unable to send email out to the Internet. How can I
-participate.
+Q) My system is unable to send email out to the Internet. How can I
+participate?
Since version 1.30 of popularity-contest, it is possible to use HTTP
as the transport protocol. This is the default for new installations,
-but need to be manually enabled for old installations. To enable it,
+but needs to be manually enabled for old installations. To enable it,
run this commmand as root:
dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
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