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> --- > <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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
