Bug#641675: mplayer: Spelling and grammar errors

Paul Stewart paulbrianstewart at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 05:28:48 UTC 2011


Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu oneiric ubuntu-patch

There are some spelling errors in the description.


*** /tmp/tmpqtEFLr
In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:

## ---------------- REPLACE THIS WITH ACTUAL INFORMATION ---------------------
## Please add all necessary information about why the change needed to go in
## Ubuntu, quote policy, spec or any other background material and why it can
## and should be used in Debian too.  If the patch is composed of multiple
## independent pieces, please send them as separate bug reports.
## ---------------- REPLACE THIS WITH ACTUAL INFORMATION ---------------------


  * debian/control: Changed "usefule" to "useful" /n Changed
    "fullscreen" to "full-screen" /n Changed "abilities" to
    "capabilities" /n Changed "You only need these..." to "This package
    is required..." /n Changed instances of "mplayer" to "MPlayer"
    throughout the documentation.


Thanks for considering the patch.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers natty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty-proposed'), (500, 'natty'), (100, 'natty-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-------------- next part --------------
=== modified file 'debian/changelog'

=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control	2011-02-26 14:37:59 +0000
+++ debian/control	2011-09-15 05:23:24 +0000
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian multimedia packages maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
-Uploaders: A Mennucc1 <mennucc1 at debian.org>,
-           Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>,
-           Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>
+Uploaders: A Mennucc1 <mennucc1 at debian.org>, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>, Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>
 DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/mplayer.git
@@ -97,11 +95,11 @@
  DirectFB, but also SDL (plus all its drivers) and some
  low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64
  and Permedia3). Most of them support software or hardware scaling,
- therefore allowing fullscreen display.  MPlayer is also able
+ therefore allowing full-screen display.  MPlayer is also able
  to use some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB
  and DXR3/Hollywood+.
  .
- This package includes the gui variant of mplayer.
+ This package includes the GUI variant of MPlayer.
 
 Package: mencoder
 Architecture: any
@@ -122,8 +120,8 @@
  encode MPlayer-playable movies
  (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET) to other
  MPlayer-playable formats. It can encode with various codecs, like DivX4
- (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. Also has stream
- copying and video resizing abilities.
+ (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. MPlayer also has stream
+ copying and video resizing capabilities.
 
 Package: mplayer
 Architecture: any
@@ -148,7 +146,7 @@
  DirectFB, but also SDL (plus all its drivers) and some
  low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64
  and Permedia3). Most of them support software or hardware scaling,
- therefore allowing fullscreen display.  MPlayer is also able
+ therefore allowing full-screen display.  MPlayer is also able
  to use some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB
  and DXR3/Hollywood+.
  .
@@ -166,8 +164,8 @@
  This package contains the debugging symbols for MPlayer, a movie
  player for Unix-like systems.
  .
- You only need these if you want to generate usefule debugging
- backtraces.
+ This package is required if you want to generate useful debugging
+ back-traces.
 
 Package: mplayer-doc
 Architecture: all
@@ -179,5 +177,5 @@
  This package contains the HTML documentation for MPlayer, a movie player for
  Unix-like systems. It is available in several languages.
  .
- You only need this package if you want to read the mplayer manual. The manpages
- are included in the regular mplayer package.
+ This package is required if you want to read the MPlayer manual. The manpages
+ are included in the regular MPlayer package.



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