Bug#615953: 'man gcp' typos: inspired s/from/by/, it s/skip/skips/, list of s/file/files/, etc.

2011-03-01 Thread A. Costa
Package: gcp
Version: 0.1.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch


Found some grammatical typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gcp.1.gz', see attached 
'.diff'.

Hope this helps...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gcp depends on:
ii  python2.6.6-3+squeeze5   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-dbus   0.83.1-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-gobject2.21.4+is.2.21.3-1 Python bindings for the GObject li

Versions of packages gcp recommends:
pn  python-progressbarnone (no description available)

gcp suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
--- gcp.1   2010-12-07 18:41:42.0 -0500
+++ /tmp/gcp.1  2011-03-01 04:01:32.039489187 -0500
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@
 .\ TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fBwhatever\fP and
 .\ \fIwhatever\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics,
 .\ respectively.
-\fBgcp\fP is a file copier, loosely inspired from cp, but with high level 
functionalities like:
+\fBgcp\fP is a file copier, loosely inspired by cp, but with high level 
functionalities like:
  \- transfer progression indication
- \- continuous copying when there is an issue: it skip the problematic file 
and go on
+ \- continuous copying when there is an issue: it skips the problematic file 
and goes on
  \- copy status logging: which files were effectively copied
  \- name mangling to handle target filesystem limitations (e.g. removing 
incompatible chars like ? or * on vfat)
  \- forced copy serialization: new files to copy are added to a global queue 
to avoid hard drive head seeks
- \- transfer list management: gcp can save a list of file to copy and reuse it 
later
- \- approximative option compatibility with cp (approximative because the 
behaviour is not exactly the same, see below)
+ \- transfer list management: gcp can save a list of files to copy and reuse 
it later
+ \- approximate option compatibility with cp (approximate because the 
behaviour is not exactly the same, see below)
 .SH OPTIONS
 These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
 options starting with two dashes (`-').
@@ -88,10 +88,10 @@
 Delete the list of source files named SOURCES_DEL.
 .TP
 .B \-\-sources\-list
-List the name of source file lists.
+List the names of source file lists.
 .TP
 .B \-\-sources\-full\-list
-List the name of source file lists, including their content.
+List the names of source file lists, including their content.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR cp (1).
 .br


Bug#615953: 'man gcp' typos: inspired s/from/by/, it s/skip/skips/, list of s/file/files/, etc.

2011-03-01 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
tags 615953 + pending
thanks

Le mardi 01 mars 2011 10:58:46, A. Costa a écrit :
 Package: gcp
 Version: 0.1.1-1
 Severity: minor
 Tags: patch
 
 
 Found some grammatical typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gcp.1.gz', see
 attached '.diff'.
 
 Hope this helps...
Patch applied and commited in the VCS. Thanks for the patch.

Best regards.

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