Paul Hardy writes ("Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages"):
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 12:18 PM Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> > Aren't either acceptable in contemporary English? ('to' is what I would
> > expect myself to write)
>
> I'm accustomed to "different from", but I am not a grammarian. :-)
> Whichever you prefer.
I am fine with `different to' and apparently write it myself or at
least read it without noticing. So I would prefer to retain it.
> > > -Whether to setup a merge driver which uses dpkg-mergechangelogs for
> > > +Whether to set up a merge driver which uses dpkg-mergechangelogs for
> >
> > I think this is wrong. AIUI, 'setup' is a noun and 'set up' is a verb.
>
> Right, so it seemed it was being used as a verb; hence "set up". One
> way or another, everybody will know what is meant of course.
I have a personal tendency to glue words together more than other
people. I think your (Paul's) analysis of this as a verb is correct
(at least for general contemporary usage) and therefore Sean ought to
agree with you that it should be `set up'. I am fine with it being
changed.
As for the rest, I agree with Sean's comments. Paul, would you care
to respin the patch ? I'm planning an upload soon today but I can
wait a few hours if that would get thwse changes included.
Regards,
Ian.
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