Package: debarchiver
Version: 0.9.6
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

While working on the German translation of the man page several
phrases were detected, which could deserver a language improvement:

-"administrators that needs special packages, or tweaked versions to ease "
+"administrators that need special packages, or tweaked versions to ease "

-"The criteria for which binary packages that should be installed even if it "
-"does not have a .changes file, default $distinputcriteria.\n"
+"The criteria for binary packages that should be installed even if they "
+"do not have a .changes file, default $distinputcriteria.\n"

-"This is the directory where the all packages and corresponding *.changes "
+"This is the directory for all packages and corresponding *.changes "

-"Define which format has to be used to send emails with the user command\n"
-"specify by --mailfrom. Only sendmail and mail formats are supported. By\n"
-"default, if this  option is not given, debarchiver assumes the sendmail\n"
-"format. The argument can be one of the followings:\n"
+"Define which format have to be used to send emails with the user command\n"
+"specified by --mailfrom. Only sendmail and the mail format are supported. 
By\n"
+"default, if this option is not given, debarchiver assumes the sendmail\n"
+"format. The argument can be one of the followings:\n"

-"Scan using apt-ftparchive or dpkg-scan* depending on what is installed on "
+"Scan using apt-ftparchive or dpkg-scan depending on what is installed on "

-"Force install of changes files even if some files already exists with wrong "
-"size or md5 hash."
+"Force install of .changes files even if some files already exist with wrong "
+"sizes or md5 hashes."

-"The criteria for which packages that should be installed even if it does not "
+"The criteria for packages that should be installed even if they do not "

-"Force install of changes files even if some files already exists with wrong "
-"size or md5 hash. Default to 0."
+"Force install of .changes files even if some files already exist with wrong "
+"sizes or md5 hashes. Default to 0."

-" * If a file that is about to be installed, already exist in the archive and "
+" * If a file that is about to be installed already exist in the archive and "

-" * Changes file is incomplete and has been there for $incompletetime time.\n"
-" * A file that is part of the Changes file is not yet big enough and the "
-"changes file has been there for $incompletetime time.\n"
-" * A file that is part of the Changes file is bigger than specified.\n"
-" * If verify signatures is enabled and signature do not match.\n"
+" * If a .changes file is incomplete and has been there for $incompletetime 
time.\n"
+" * If a file that is part of the .changes file is not yet big enough and the "
+".changes file has been there for $incompletetime time.\n"
+" * If a file that is part of the .changes file is bigger than specified.\n"
+" * If verify signatures is enabled and signatures do not match.\n"

Please note that I'm not a native speaker, you might want to consult
one (e.g. debian-l10n-english) for further improvements.

Please unfuzzy all translations after fixing:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#s6.5.2.3


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