Package: secure-delete
Version: 3.1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Regarding Debian Bug #653260 "secure-delete: Minor typo in sdmen's manpage
(NOTE section)".
Corrected some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/sdmem.1.gz', ("algorythm",
"thiefs" and 's/called sdmem/called smem/'), 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 3.2.0-3-686-pae (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 secure-delete depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-34
secure-delete recommends no packages.
secure-delete suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- sdmem.1 2010-01-05 10:51:34.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/sdmem.1 2012-07-04 18:28:58.937005067 -0400
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I sdmem
is designed to delete data which may lie still in your memory (RAM)
-in a secure manner which can not be recovered by thiefs, law enforcement
+in a secure manner which can not be recovered by thieves, law enforcement
or other threats.
Note that with the new SDRAMs, data will not wither away but will be kept
static - it is easy to extract the necessary information!
-The wipe algorythm is based on the paper "Secure Deletion of Data from
+The wipe algorithm is based on the paper "Secure Deletion of Data from
Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" presented at the 6th Usenix Security
Symposium by Peter Gutmann, one of the leading civilian cryptographers.
.PP
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
.SH NOTE
.TP
This utility was originally called
-.I sdmem
+.I smem
but was renamed for debian to avoid name clashes with another package.
.SH BEWARE
