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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: apt_preferences man page could use some love from a native English speaker
- From: PJ Weisberg <pjweisberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:19:08 -0700
- Message-id: <20101101151908.3993.27693.reportbug@scratch-and-dent>
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.8
Severity: minor
Tags: patch l10n
I was reading the man page for apt_preferences and I noticed several gramatical
mistakes in one of the paragraphs. This is how I would correct it. (The diff
is against the version currently in sid.)
59,68c59,66
< <para>Preferences are a strong power in the hands of a system administrator
< but they can become also their biggest nightmare if used without care!
< APT will not questioning the preferences so wrong settings will therefore
< lead to uninstallable packages or wrong decisions while upgrading packages.
< Even more problems will arise if multiply distribution releases are mixed
< without a good understanding of the following paragraphs.
< Packages included in a specific release aren't tested in and
< therefore doesn't always work as expected in older or newer releases or
< together with other packages from different releases.
< You have been warned.</para>
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> <para>Preferences are a strong power in the hands of a system administrator,
> but they can also become your biggest nightmare if used without care! APT
will
> not question your preferences, so some settings may lead to uninstallable
> packages or wrong decisions while upgrading packages. Even more problems can
> arise from carelessly mixing packages from multiple distributions. Packages
> included in a specific release aren't tested in and therefore won't always
work
> as expected in older or newer releases or together with other packages from
> different releases. You have been warned.</para>
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-6 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.5 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.98.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.70~pre1+b1 Graphical package manager
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.daily/apt changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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