Subject: acpi-support: Improve english in README.Debian
Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.137-5+grandrUI
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
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README.Debian obviously wasn't written by a native speaker and was a
bit hard to read, so I fixed it up. Hope that's considered helpful :-)
patch attached
Wookey
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--- README.Debian.orig 2011-11-11 12:50:04.000000000 +0000
+++ README.Debian 2011-11-11 12:54:29.571864691 +0000
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
Handling of obsolete configuration files/scripts
------------------------------------------------
-Since dpkg doesn't not remove conffiles that are no more provided by the
-current version of the package, we have to disable them manually so that they
-don't create troubles.
+As dpkg doesn't remove conffiles that are no longer provided by the
+current version of the package, we have to disable them manually so
+that they don't create trouble.
Older versions of this package renamed all these files by adding a ".obsolete"
-extension. Newer version only rename those files that were changed. Unchanged
-files are simply deleted. If you find out such files in
+extension. Newer versions only rename those files that were changed. Unchanged
+files are simply deleted. If you find such files in
/etc/acpi/{events,suspend.d,resume.d}, you can safely remove them.
This renaming is required because otherwise they would be actively used
-while they are no more supposed to be there.
+even though they are supposed to have been removed.
You can use the following command to find the files that have been renamed:
$ dpkg -s acpi-support | grep obsolete$
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@
keyboard the old approach of acpi_fakekey to just send the needed event through
an existing keyboard device does not always work. As a workaround acpi_fakekey
now sends the generated key press event through the user level input driver and
-thus needs CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT defined in the kernel and, if build as a module,
+thus needs CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT defined in the kernel and, if built as a module,
the uinput module to be loaded.
The "acpi-support" method for suspending.
-----------------------------------------
-Older version of acpi-support had their own scripts to control suspend and
+Older versions of acpi-support had their own scripts to control suspend and
resume. This has been deprecated for quite some time and finally has been
removed in 0.122-1. The scripts are stil available under
/usr/share/doc/acpi-support/examples and can easily be copied back to their
