Hello, Thanks very much for your report.
Since my native language is french, I will let some native speaker on debian-l10n-english confirm your suggestion. On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:33:50PM -0400, P. Law wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > Your webpage " http://debian.org/News/2009/20090523 " states: > > "The Debian Project wishes to announce the change of the GNU Privacy > Guard key used to digitally sign its archive reference files. Signatures > are used to ensure that packages installed by users are the very same > originally distributed by Debian, and have not been exchanged or > tempered [SIC} with." > > > From Wikipedia, it says, > > "Tempering is a heat treatment technique for metals, alloys and glass. > In steels, tempering is done to "toughen" the metal by transforming > brittle martensite into bainite or a combination of ferrite and > cementite. Precipitation hardening alloys, like many grades of aluminum > and superalloys, are tempered to precipitate intermetallic particles > which strengthen the metal. Tempering is accomplished by a controlled > reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower critical > temperature." > > > The word you were looking for is "tampering." From the website, > " thefreedictionary.com ", the definition of "tamper" is: > > "1. To interfere in a harmful manner: tried to tamper with the > decedent's will; tampering with the timing mechanism of the safe. > 2. To tinker with rashly or foolishly: Don't tamper with my feelings. > 3. To engage in improper or secret dealings, as in an effort to > influence: tamper with a jury. See Synonyms at interfere. > v.tr. To alter improperly." -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
