[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#460994: Bug#460994: cryptsetup: manpage typos; cryptsetup, crypttab

[Justin Pryzby]

Hi Jonas

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:16:19AM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 15/01/2008 Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Package: cryptsetup
> > Version: 2:1.0.6~pre1-1
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > There's some typos in the documentation; some of these are generated
> > docs, so the patches can't all be applied simply.

> I appreciate your patch, but i'm not sure whether all changes are really
> necessary. I'm not a native english speaker, and i don't know whether
> you are one,
I'm a native speaker.

> but i doubt that there's any relevant difference between "twofish as
> cipher" and "twofish as a cipher".
As currently written, it comes across as unnaturally and not even as a
sentence fragment (when it's sometimes ok to ommit articles).  I can
suggest another alternative which sounds better to my ears:
|Encrypted disk with interactive password and twofish cipher

> If you're really sure about the necessity even of these small changes,
> then feel free to prove me that i'm wrong ;-)
> 
> It's not that i really have objections, but rather that some
> modifications by you sound somewhat strange to me.
I understand and agree that some of these are very minor changes not
alone worth separate/independant patches.  However all of them are
changes in the right direction.  For confirmation, I would suggest to
ask on -l10n-english.

Justin