Hello Jeff,

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> AFAICT, the spell corrections here @rpm5.org
> 
>     - devzero2000: fix misspelling
>       Fix misspelling using  http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check
> 
> are now being returned as a patch from Fedora.

whoops...you are partially right. I should have checked that. Attached is a
new patch for the two changes that did not yet happen upstream.

> I'm glad to hear that Fedora has upgraded from popt-1.13. Or have they?

Not yet, but I am working on that, at least for Fedora Rawhide (-> F21).


Greetings,
  Robert
Patch by John Bradshaw <j...@johnbradshaw.org> for popt <= 1.16 which fixes some
spelling mistakes in popt man page.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675567 for further details, 
please.
This patch was proposed to upstream: 
http://rpm5.org/community/popt-devel/0263.html

--- popt-1.16/popt.3                            2009-07-25 20:52:36.000000000 
+0200
+++ popt-1.16/popt.3.man-page                   2013-11-24 15:59:58.000000000 
+0100
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
 .RB "This macro includes another option table (via " POPT_ARG_INCLUDE_TABLE
 ; see below) in the main one which provides the table entries for these
 .RB "arguments. When " --usage " or " --help " are passed to programs which
-use popt's automatical help, popt displays the appropriate message on 
+use popt's automatic help, popt displays the appropriate message on 
 stderr as soon as it finds the option, and exits the program with a
 return code of 0. If you want to use popt's automatic help generation in
 a different way, you need to explicitly add the option entries to your 
programs 
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
 .TP
 .B POPT_ERROR_BADNUMBER
 A conversion from a string to a number (int or long) failed due
-to the string containing nonnumeric characters. This occurs when
+to the string containing non-numeric characters. This occurs when
 .BR poptGetNextOpt() " is processing an argument of type " 
 .BR POPT_ARG_INT ", " POPT_ARG_SHORT ", " POPT_ARG_LONG ", " POPT_ARG_LONGLONG 
", "
 .RB POPT_ARG_FLOAT ", or " POPT_ARG_DOUBLE "."  

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