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typos in manpages



Hello,
diffs in attachments for some typos:
diff-apt-cache.8.sgml 
diff-apt-get.8.sgml
diff-vendors.list.5.sgml

Regards,

-- 
philippe batailler
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
--- apt-cache.8.sgml	Mon Aug  6 22:33:43 2001
+++ apt-cache-new.8.sgml	Sat Aug 18 17:42:34 2001
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
      
      <VarListEntry><Term>gencaches</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     <literal/gencaches/ performs the same opration as 
+     <literal/gencaches/ performs the same operation as 
      <command/apt-get check/. It builds the source and package caches from 
      the sources in &sources-list; and from <filename>/var/lib/dpkg/status</>.
      </VarListEntry>
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
        <listitem><para>
        <literal/Missing/ is the number of package names that were referenced in
        a dependency but were not provided by any package. Missing packages may 
-       be in evidence if a full distribution is not accesssed, or if a package
+       be in evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a package
        (real or virtual) has been dropped from the distribution. Usually they
        are referenced from Conflicts statements.
        </listitem>
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
      <VarListEntry><Term>dotty</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
      <literal/dotty/ takes a list of packages on the command line and 
-     gernerates output suitable for use by dotty from the 
+     generates output suitable for use by dotty from the 
      <ulink url="http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/";>GraphVis</>
      package. The result will be a set of nodes and edges representing the 
      relationships between the packages. By default the given packages will 
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@
      <literal>APT::Cache::GivenOnly</> option.
 
      <para>
-     The resulting nodes will have several shapse, normal packages are boxes,
+     The resulting nodes will have several shapes, normal packages are boxes,
      pure provides are triangles, mixed provides are diamonds, 
      hexagons are missing packages. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped 
      [leaf packages], blue lines are prre-depends, green lines are conflicts.
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
      
      <VarListEntry><Term>policy</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     <literal/policy/ is ment to help debug issues relating to the 
+     <literal/policy/ is meant to help debug issues relating to the 
      preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the 
      priorities of each source. Otherwise it prints out detailed information
      about the priority selection of the named package.
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
      Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by
      <literal/gencaches/ and it stores a parsed version of the package 
      information from remote sources. When building the package cache the 
-     source cache is used to advoid reparsing all of the package files.
+     source cache is used to avoid reparsing all of the package files.
      Configuration Item: <literal/Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache/.
      </VarListEntry>
 
--- apt-get.8.sgml	Mon Aug  6 22:33:44 2001
+++ apt-get-new.8.sgml	Sat Aug 18 18:22:04 2001
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
      <literal/upgrade/, also intelligently handles changing dependencies 
      with new versions of packages; <command/apt-get/ has a "smart" conflict 
      resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important 
-     packages at the expense of less  important ones if necessary. 
+     packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. 
      The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</> file contains a list of locations 
      from which to retrieve desired package files.
      </VarListEntry>
@@ -104,14 +104,14 @@
      <literal/install/ is followed by one or more packages desired for 
      installation. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified 
      filename (for instance, in a Debian GNU/Linux system, libc6 would be the 
-     argument provided, not em(libc6_1.9.6-2.deb)). All packages required 
+     argument provided, not <filename>libc6_1.9.6-2.deb</filename>). All packages required 
      by the package(s) specified for installation will also be retrieved and 
      installed. The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</> file is used to locate 
      the desired packages. If a hyphen is appended to the package name (with 
      no intervening space), the identified package will be removed if it is 
      installed. Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to 
      install. These latter features may be used to override decisions made by 
-     apt-get's conflict resolution  system.
+     apt-get's conflict resolution system.
      <para>
      A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by 
      following the package name with an equals and the version of the package 
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
      <ListItem><Para>
      Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in            
      place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages
-     to permit APT to deduce a likely soltion. Any Package that are specified
+     to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. Any Package that are specified
      must completly correct the problem. The option is sometimes necessary when 
      running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package 
      dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's 
--- vendors.list.5.sgml	Tue Mar 13 07:51:46 2001
+++ vendors.list-new.5.sgml	Sun Aug 19 18:11:12 2001
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
    <literal/simple-key/.
    <para>
    <replaceable/vendor_id/ is the vendor identification string. It is an
-   arbitrary string you must supply to uniquely identifify a
+   arbitrary string you must supply to uniquely identify a
    vendor that's listed in this file.
    
    Example:
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
    <para>   
    This type of verification is used when the vendor has a single
    secured key that must be used to sign the Release file. The
-   following items should be present
+   following items should be present:
    
    <VariableList>
      <VarListEntry><Term>Fingerprint</Term>
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
      <VarListEntry><Term>Name</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
      A string containing a description of the owner of
-     the  key  or vendor.  You may put the vendor name and it's
+     the  key  or vendor.  You may put the vendor name and its
      email. The string must be quoted with ".
      </VarListEntry>
      

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