Re: Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 "etch-and-a-half"

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:24:20PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Attached you'll find the current draft for the announcement of
> "etch-and-a-half".  Please review it; current schedule for it to be send
> out is tomorrow.

Shouldn't it be "etch-and-nine-tenth" or something like this :-)

> DVDs. If you don't need newer drivers you'll only to update against

only have to ...

> ftp.debian.org after an installation, in order to incorporate those late
> changes.</p>
 
> <p>These package are update for <q>etch-and-a-half</q>:</p>

are updated (or better: got updated)

> <correction sysvinit			"Update shutdown to work w/ libata in linux newer than 2.6.23">

w/ ????

> <p><a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf";>Release notes</a>
> covering the specialties of <q>etch-and-a-half</q> have been written as well as

specialties?

> 
> <correction chkrootkit			"Enye check was killing random applications">

Enye???

> <correction hal				"Allows mounting ntfs volumes from within KDE">

"Allow" to be consistent with other entries

> <correction znc				"Fix NULL pointer deferences leading to crashes">

dereferences

(please check DSA as well)

> <tr><th>Package</th>			<th>Architecture &mdash; Reason</th></tr>

Mhm ... is the usage of &mdash; OK?

> <dsa 2008 1535    iceweasel		"Fix several vulnerabilities">
> <dsa 2008 1536    xine-lib		"Fix Several vulnerabilities">

several (no capitalisation, check DSA as well)

> <dsa 2008 1554    roundup		"Fix cross-site scripting vulnerabily">

vulnerabily?

> <dsa 2008 1593    tomcat5.5		"Fix missing input sanitising and cross-site scripting issue">

Didn't you used also "cross site" already?

Jens