Package: chase
Version: 0.5.2-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/chase.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.

Hope this helps...

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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages chase depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgc1c2                     1:6.8-1     conservative garbage collector for

chase recommends no packages.

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--- chase.1     2005-08-11 15:25:09.000000000 -0400
+++ /tmp/chase.1        2006-10-20 04:56:29.000000000 -0400
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 .B chase
 a name of an existing file.  The program will then show you (or, more
 accurately, print to the standard output stream) the name of the real
-file that the original file referred to.  It does not matter, if you give
+file that the original file referred to.  It does not matter if you give
 the program the name of a regular file;
 .B  chase
 will just give you the same name back.  You can give the utility the option
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 are not interpreted as special.
 .IP "\-0, \-\-null"
 This option implies the option \-f, which reads file names from a file.
-The -0 option modifies the behviour \-f so that instead of treating
+The -0 option modifies the behavior \-f so that instead of treating
 lines in the file as file names, the file names are expected to be
 separated by null characters.  This allows for specifying file names
 with newlines in them with -f.
@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@
 .IP "quite many symlink hops, hope we're not looping..."
 This means that the chain of symlinks is longer than a given threshold.
 This may mean that the chain is infinite (and thus contains a loop
-somewhere).  The threshold can be specificed by using the
+somewhere).  The threshold can be specified by using the
 \-\-loop\-warn\-threshold command line option.
 .IP "too many symlink hops, giving up..."
 This means that the chain of symlinks is longer than a given threshold.
 This usually means that the chain is infinite (and thus contains a
-loop somewhere).  The threshold can be specificed by using the
+loop somewhere).  The threshold can be specified by using the
 \-\-loop\-fail\-threshold command line option.  If you see this message, it
 means that
 .B chase
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
 .PP
 Additionally, 
 .B Chase
-emits several error messages under problemous conditions.  They
+emits several error messages under problematic conditions.  They
 all come from the system libraries, so the program has no control over
 the actual wording of the messages.  They all follow the format
 "program name: file name: error message", where file name is the name

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