Bug#486116: [exim4] README.Debian.xml with corrected typos and typography

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sat Jun 14 07:36:49 UTC 2008


On 2008-06-13 Paul Menzel <pm.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.69-5
[...]
> Dear DDs,

> starting to get in touch with Exim, I read through README.Debian.xml and
> tried to correct any mistakes I spotted. See the attached patch.

> 1. Since Lenny is supposed to support UTF-8 and thanks to NEO [1] I can
> utilize the symbols easily, I changed those. Most notably the quotation
> marks.

> 2. English is not my mother tongue. But I hope, I correctly remembered
> some rules from school for some corrections I made.

> 3. I tried to get rid of abbreviations, since it is a written document.
> (You’ll → You will, etc.)


Hello,

I have cherry-picked from these 3, applying 2&3 but not 1. Imho the
cumbersome typing outweights the better/different appearance.

> 4. In some cases package names are used. Are there any tags for
> packages, that for example in the html output the package could be
> linked to packages.debian.org?
[...]

Not that I am aware of, but my knowledge on this is bounded.

thanks, cu andreas
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