Chris Leick wrote:
> while translating debhelper to German, I've found some typos. The
> patch add-on.diff changes all occurences of addon in text messages
> to add-on.

I don't see a reason to do this. 

joey@gnu:~>apt-cache search addon|wc -l
62

> diff -ru debhelper.orig//dh_python debhelper/dh_python
> --- debhelper.orig//dh_python 2011-12-06 07:54:07.000000000 +0100
> +++ debhelper/dh_python       2011-12-06 08:49:04.000000000 +0100
> @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
>  
>  If your package installs Python modules in non-standard directories, you
>  can make F<dh_python> check those directories by passing their names on the
> -command line. By default, it will check F</usr/lib/site-python,
> -/usr/lib/$PACKAGE>, F</usr/share/$PACKAGE>, F</usr/lib/games/$PACKAGE>,
> +command line. By default, it will check F</usr/lib/site-python>,
> +F</usr/lib/$PACKAGE>, F</usr/share/$PACKAGE>, F</usr/lib/games/$PACKAGE>,
>  F</usr/share/games/$PACKAGE> and F</usr/lib/python?.?/site-packages>.

Applied.

> diff -ru debhelper.orig//debhelper.pod debhelper/debhelper.pod
> --- debhelper.orig//debhelper.pod     2011-12-06 07:54:06.000000000 +0100
> +++ debhelper/debhelper.pod   2011-12-06 08:42:56.000000000 +0100
> @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
>  If this option is not specified, building will be done in source by default
>  unless the build system requires or prefers out of source tree building.
>  In such a case, the default build directory will be used even if
> -B<--builddirectory> is not specified.
> +B<--builddirectory> is specified.

The existing test is correct; for a build system that requires out of
source building, a build directory is used even without
--builddirectory.

> -B<dh_clean> will delete toplevel F<*-stamp> files.
> +B<dh_clean> will delete top-level F<*-stamp> files.

joey@gnu:~>apt-cache search toplevel|wc -l
22

> diff -ru debhelper.orig//dh_installinit debhelper/dh_installinit
> --- debhelper.orig//dh_installinit    2011-12-06 07:54:07.000000000 +0100
> +++ debhelper/dh_installinit  2011-12-06 08:44:37.000000000 +0100
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
>  for non-upstart systems.
>  
>  It also automatically generates the F<postinst> and F<postrm> and F<prerm> 
> commands
> -needed to set up the symlinks in F</etc/rc*.d/> and to start and stop the 
> init
> +needed to set up the symlinks in F</etc/rc*.d/> to start and stop the init
>  scripts.

Applied.

>  After the man page installation step, B<dh_installman> will check to see if
>  any of the man pages in the temporary directories of any of the packages it
> -is acting on contain F<.so> links. If so, it changes them to symlinks.
> +is acting on contains F<.so> links. If so, it changes them to symlinks.

"contain" is right to match the number of "packages". English is
annoying that way.

> diff -ru debhelper.orig//dh_installmenu debhelper/dh_installmenu
> --- debhelper.orig//dh_installmenu    2011-12-06 07:54:07.000000000 +0100
> +++ debhelper/dh_installmenu  2011-12-06 08:51:36.000000000 +0100
> @@ -86,9 +86,9 @@
>  
>  =head1 SEE ALSO
>  
> -L<debhelper(7)>
>  L<update-menus(1)>
>  L<menufile(5)>
> +L<debhelper(7)>
>  
>  This program is a part of debhelper.

Despite what it might say in some man page, debhelper is the most
important thing to see also from the man page, so I put it first.
Cf: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/abc/

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