Mathieu Lirzin <[email protected]> writes: > "dine" <[email protected]> writes: > >> I am not a native speaker of the English language, but I feel that in >> the first sentence of section 11.3 of the GNU maintainer info doc, >> >> "Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries proprietary >> for systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS." >> >> the words "proprietary" and "for" are in the wrong order, since the >> former word modifies the systems according to the context. (I may be >> wrong, though.) > > Hi, > > I think you are perfectly right. :) > Thanks for reporting this error.
Ping. Can someone apply this change? Here is a patch to be applied on top of the other one in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2015-12/msg00000.html -- Mathieu Lirzin
>From 00348cddca746358fe0122af74ae40d38e9b6b29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Lirzin <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:31:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] maintain: Fix typo. * maintain.texi (Binary Distribution): Fix typo by switching "for" and "proprietary". Reported by dine <[email protected]>. --- ChangeLog | 3 +++ maintain.texi | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e424951..11bb720 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2015-12-22 Mathieu Lirzin <[email protected]> + * maintain.texi (Binary Distribution): Fix typo by switching "for" and + "proprietary". Reported by dine <[email protected]>. + * maintain.texi (Standard Mailing Lists): Use full email addresses. 2015-04-23 Karl Berry <[email protected]> diff --git a/maintain.texi b/maintain.texi index 76e126e..6ea22b7 100644 --- a/maintain.texi +++ b/maintain.texi @@ -1441,8 +1441,8 @@ version, and checking that the result exactly matches the new version. @node Binary Distribution @section Binary Distribution for Nonfree Platforms -Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries proprietary -for systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS. It's entirely up to you +Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries for proprietary +systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS. It's entirely up to you whether to do that; we don't ask you to do it, but we don't object. Please do not let anyone make you feel you have an obligation to do this. -- 2.6.4
