Bug#348329: popularity-contest: Spelling fixes for document 'FAQ'

[Bill Allombert]

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:19:28PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.32
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Please find attached a patch that fixes some spelling and other language
> errors in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.

Hello Thijs,

I have applied your fix to the CVS repository and I have updated 
the popcon website. This bug will be closed when the next 
popularity-contest package will be uploaded.

Thanks a lot for your patch!
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Bug#348329: popularity-contest: Spelling fixes for document 'FAQ'

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.32
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hello,

Please find attached a patch that fixes some spelling and other language
errors in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.


bye,
Thijs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.67 Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg  1.13.11.1  package maintenance system for Deb

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron  3.0pl1-92  management of regular background p
pn  mime-construct (no description available)
hi  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.2.8-4A high-performance mail transport 

-- debconf information excluded
--- FAQ.orig2006-01-15 11:03:04.0 +0100
+++ FAQ 2006-01-15 11:13:20.0 +0100
@@ -1,47 +1,47 @@
   Popularity-contest Frequently Asked Questions.
 
-Q) What informations are reported by popularity-contest ?
+Q) What information is reported by popularity-contest ?
 
-A) popularity-contest report the Debian architecture you use, the version of
+A) popularity-contest reports the system architecture you use, the version of
popularity-contest you use and the list of packages installed on your
-   system. For each packages, popularity-contest looks at the most recently
-   used (based on atime) files, and report the filename, its last access time
+   system. For each package, popularity-contest looks at the most recently
+   used (based on atime) files, and reports the filename, its last access time
(atime) and last change time (ctime). However, some files are not 
considered,
because they have unreliable atime.
 
-Q) What are the privacy consideration for popularity-contest ?
+Q) What are the privacy considerations for popularity-contest ?
 
 A) Each popularity-contest host is identified by a random 128bit uuid
(MY_HOSTID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf). This uuid is used to
-   track submission issued by the same host. It should be kept secret.
+   track submissions issued by the same host. It should be kept secret.
The reports are sent by email or HTTP to the popcon server.  The
-   server automatically extract the report from the email or HTTP and
-   store it in a database for a maximum of 20 days or until the host
-   send a new report. This database is readable only by Debian
+   server automatically extracts the report from the email or HTTP and
+   stores it in a database for a maximum of 20 days or until the host
+   sends a new report. This database is readable only by Debian
Developers.  The emails are readable only by the server admins.
-   Every day, the server compute a summary and post it on
+   Every day, the server computes a summary and posts it on
. This summary
is a merge of all the submissions and does not include uuids.

-   Known weakness of the system:
+   Known weaknesses of the system:

1) Your email submission might be intercepted. We evaluate the possibility
to use public-key cryptography to protect the email.

-   2) Someone who know you are very likely to use a particular package reported
+   2) Someone who knows that you are very likely to use a particular package 
reported
by only one person (e.g. you are the maintainer) might infer you are not at
home when the package is not reported anymore. However this is only a
problem if you are gone for more than two weeks if the computer is shut-down
-   and 23 days if it is let idle.  
+   and 23 days if it is let idle.

3) Unofficial and local packages are reported. This can be an issue
-   especially with 2) above, especially for custom-build kernel packages.
+   especially with 2) above, especially for custom-built kernel packages.
We are evaluating how far we can alleviate this problem.

 Q) My submissions bounce with 
550 [PERMFAIL] popcon.debian.org requires valid sender domain.
 
-A) when submitting using email, popularity-contest send the report as
+A) when submitting using email, popularity-contest sends the report as
root but the email address of the root user was not configured
properly.  With exim, you can add an entry for root in
/etc/email-addresses with a suitable address.
@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@
 
 A) popularity-contest is run by the weekly cron job 
 /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest.
-Under the default configuration of cron, this happens every sundays
+Under the default configuration of cron, this happens every Sunday
 at 6:47 in the morning. This can be changed by editing /etc/crontab
 but if your computer is not always turned on, we really recommend you
 install the anacron packag