Bug#830989: debian-policy: Typos "the the" in "4.4 Debian changelog: debian/changelog" and "8.6.3.2 The symbols File Format"

[Russ Allbery]

Valentin Samir  writes:

> Reading the debian policy for the first time, I notice two minor typos
> where 'the' is repeated.

> The first time in §4.4:
> "+ or - is the the time zone offset from Coordinated Universal 
> Time (UTC)."

> The second time in §8.6.3.2
> "To explain this format, we'll use the the zlib1g package as an example, 
> […]"

Thanks!  Patch applied for the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)   

Bug#830989: debian-policy: Typos "the the" in "4.4 Debian changelog: debian/changelog" and "8.6.3.2 The symbols File Format"

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 17:08:31 +0200, Valentin Samir wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch

> Reading the debian policy for the first time, I notice two minor typos where 
> 'the'
> is repeated.
> 
> The first time in §4.4:
> "+ or - is the the time zone offset from Coordinated Universal 
> Time (UTC)."

Ah nice catch! I've fixed the following in dpkg's deb-changelog(5)
man page locally (and a bunch of other files which had the same typo).

> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 9cd182b..61956cd 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -1799,7 +1799,7 @@ zope.
> mm is the two-digit minutes (00-59)
> ss is the two-digit seconds (00-60)
> 
> - + or - is the the time zone offset from Coordinated
> + + or - is the time zone offset from Coordinated
>   Universal Time (UTC).  "+" indicates that the time is ahead
>   of (i.e., east of) UTC and "-" indicates that the time is
>   behind (i.e., west of) UTC.  The first two digits indicate

Thanks,
Guillem

Bug#830989: debian-policy: Typos "the the" in "4.4 Debian changelog: debian/changelog" and "8.6.3.2 The symbols File Format"

[Valentin Samir]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi

Reading the debian policy for the first time, I notice two minor typos where 
'the'
is repeated.

The first time in §4.4:
"+ or - is the the time zone offset from Coordinated Universal Time 
(UTC)."

The second time in §8.6.3.2
"To explain this format, we'll use the the zlib1g package as an example, 
[…]"


diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 9cd182b..61956cd 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1799,7 +1799,7 @@ zope.
mm is the two-digit minutes (00-59)
ss is the two-digit seconds (00-60)

- + or - is the the time zone offset from Coordinated
+ + or - is the time zone offset from Coordinated
  Universal Time (UTC).  "+" indicates that the time is ahead
  of (i.e., east of) UTC and "-" indicates that the time is
  behind (i.e., west of) UTC.  The first two digits indicate
@@ -6501,7 +6501,7 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)

 

- To explain this format, we'll use the the zlib1g
+ To explain this format, we'll use the zlib1g
  package as an example, which (at the time of writing)
  installs the shared
  library /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4.  Mandatory


Cheers,

-- 
Valentin Samir

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