Package: xstow Version: 1.0.0-2.1 Severity: normal It appears that nobody bothered to proofread the xstow.ini.5 manual page.
The most obvious problem is that every occurrence of "traverse-links" has been written as "traserve-links". Here is a suggested revision of the introductory section to try and raise the quality. --------------------------------<snip>-------------------------------------- --- xstow.ini.5.orig 2014-02-13 11:35:45.000000000 +0000 +++ xstow.ini.5 2014-02-13 11:35:45.000000000 +0000 @@ -142,26 +142,25 @@ xstow.ini, config file for XStow .SH "CONTENT" .IX Header "CONTENT" -The xstow.ini file contains some static informations about your -system. It's possible setting most necessary values by setting the -required command line option, but in some cases this won't make sense -if you are using xstow quite often. +The xstow.ini file contains some static informations about your system. +It is possible to set most of the necessary values with command line options, +but this will not be convenient if xstow is frequently used in this manner. .SH "SYNTAX" .IX Header "SYNTAX" -The syntax of the configuration file is simple. It's the same as it is +The syntax of the configuration file is simple. It is the same as that used by \s-1KDE\s0 and \s-1GNOME.\s0 .PP -The data is splitted into keys values and sections. The '#' sign marks +The data is split into sections of keys and values. The '#' sign marks a comment. Here is an example: .PP .Vb 3 -\& [traserve\-links] +\& [traverse\-links] \& keep\-targets = true \& link = /usr/tmp # comment .Ve -.IP "\fB[traserve\-links]\fR" 4 -.IX Item "[traserve-links]" -is a section with the name \*(L"traserve-links\*(R" +.IP "\fB[traverse\-links]\fR" 4 +.IX Item "[traverse-links]" +is a section with the name \*(L"traverse-links\*(R" .IP "\fBkeep-targets = true\fR" 4 .IX Item "keep-targets = true" is a key \- value pair, where 'keep\-targets' is the key and 'true' is @@ -173,15 +172,15 @@ overwritten by the next config file. List keys like \&\fB[traverse\-links]\fR=>\fBlink\fR will be appended to the list. .PP -If you wan't more informations about the current stow setup call XStow +If you want more informations about the current stow setup, call XStow like this: .PP .Vb 1 \& xstow \-s \-dl 1 dummy\-package | less .Ve .PP -For getting information about which config files were processed you -will have to set some environment values (see \fIxstow\fR\|(1) for +To get information about which config files were processed, you +need to set some environment values (see \fIxstow\fR\|(1) for details). Eg.: .PP @@ -190,8 +189,8 @@ .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" -.SS "\s-1SECTION\s0 traserve-links" -.IX Subsection "SECTION traserve-links" +.SS "\s-1SECTION\s0 traverse-links" +.IX Subsection "SECTION traverse-links" In this section a number of links are listed, which xstow will identify as links that are not part of an xstow managed package. Eg.: --------------------------------<snip>-------------------------------------- I would have included the patch as an attachment, but nmh complains - whatnow: Cannot use attach commands with already-formatted MIME message "/var/tmp/miller/reportbug-xstow-20161222-14401-P7VxaX" -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 3.10.17.1-wand-armhf.com (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages xstow depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 xstow recommends no packages. xstow suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
