The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 036cf037e37ac60ac198013d3211b6a614119c18
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Jul 31 08:05:52 2012 +0200
man: Do not use header when format or field is meant
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 58a84ec..60db95f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ dpkg (1.17.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Add compression development packages to libdpkg-dev Depends.
* Disable justification and hyphenation in SEE ALSO man page sections.
* Remove unneeded double quotes in .SH man page headings.
+ * Do not use “header” when “format” or “field” is meant in man pages.
-- Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:21:00 +0200
diff --git a/man/dpkg-buildflags.1 b/man/dpkg-buildflags.1
index ea61306..8d36230 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-buildflags.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-buildflags.1
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Print the features enabled for a given area. The only
currently recognized
area is \fBhardening\fP. Exits with 0 if the area is known otherwise exits
with 1.
.IP
-The output format is RFC822 header-style, with one section per feature.
+The output is in RFC822 format, with one section per feature.
For example:
.IP
.nf
diff --git a/man/update-alternatives.8 b/man/update-alternatives.8
index 3ee5b19..091322e 100644
--- a/man/update-alternatives.8
+++ b/man/update-alternatives.8
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Path to this block's alternative.
Value of the priority of this alternative.
.TP
.BI Slaves: " list-of-slaves"
-When this header is present, the \fBnext\fR lines hold all slave alternatives
+When this field is present, the \fBnext\fR lines hold all slave alternatives
associated to the master link of the alternative. There is one slave per
line. Each line contains one space, the generic name of the slave
alternative, another space, and the path to the slave alternative.
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