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Package: debian-handbook
Version: 6.0+20120509
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Technically, the word Boolean is formal (i.e. George Boole) and is
supposed to be capitalized. Feel free to ignore the attached patch if
this seems too trivial to worry about.
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--- a/en-US/09_unix-services.xml
+++ b/en-US/09_unix-services.xml
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@
<para>Two particular rights are relevant to executable files:
<literal>setuid</literal> and <literal>setgid</literal> (symbolized
with the letter “s”). Note that we frequently speak of “bit”,
- since each of these boolean values can be represented by a 0 or a 1.
+ since each of these Boolean values can be represented by a 0 or a 1.
These two rights allow any user to execute the program with the
rights of the owner or the group, respectively. This mechanism grants
access to features requiring higher level permissions than those you
--- a/en-US/14_security.xml
+++ b/en-US/14_security.xml
@@ -1467,7 +1467,7 @@ user_u user s0 s0 user_r
8080, you should run <command>semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p
tcp 8080</command>.</para>
- <para>Some SELinux modules export boolean options that you can
+ <para>Some SELinux modules export Boolean options that you can
tweak to alter the behavour of the default rules. The
<command>getsebool</command> utility can be used to inspect those
options (<command>getsebool
@@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ user_u user s0 s0 user_r
and <command>getsebool -a</command> them all). The
<command>setsebool <replaceable>boolean</replaceable>
<replaceable>value</replaceable></command> command changes the
- current value of a boolean option. The <literal>-P</literal> option
+ current value of a Boolean option. The <literal>-P</literal> option
makes the change permanent, it means that the new value becomes the
default and will be kept across reboots. The example below grants
web servers an access to home directories (this is useful when
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Hi,
On Mon, 21 May 2012, Christopher Wellons wrote:
> Technically, the word Boolean is formal (i.e. George Boole) and is
> supposed to be capitalized. Feel free to ignore the attached patch if
> this seems too trivial to worry about.
I won't apply this one. While you may be right, I find it disturbing to
find this word capitalized in the middle of the sentence. And I don't want
to distract the reader. :)
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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