Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Bug#671006: parallel: 'man parallel' typos: "charaters", "halfcompleted", "do no exist", "occationally", "possibilites", "sacrifying", "transfered", etc.

[Rogério Brito]

Dear A. Costa,

Thanks for reporting this. I am CC'ing the upstream mailinglist for bugs and
will mark this bug as forwarded. I am top posting this so that upstream can
see the context of the bug.

Thanks,
Rogério Brito.

On May 01 2012, A. Costa wrote:
> Package: parallel
> Version: 20120422-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz'.
> 
> Ordinarily I'd attach a '.diff' for it, but that man page source is
> 'Pod::Man' and my typo finder script doesn't (yet...) understand that
> format.
> 
> Settle for 'sed'?  First as code:
> 
>       # should work with any text format, barring word wrap for list item #3 
> below
>       # append suitable "< infile > outfile"
>       sed 's/charaters/characters/;s/halfcompleted/half\-completed/;s/that do 
> no exist./that do not 
> exist;s/occationally/occasionally/;s/possibilites/possibilities/;s/sacrifying/sacrificing/;s/transfered/transferred/'
> 
> And a separate numbered list, for clarity:
> 
>       1    s/charaters/characters/
>       2    s/halfcompleted/half-completed/
>       3    s/that do no exist/that do not exist/
>       4    s/occationally/occasionally/
>       5    s/possibilites/possibilities/
>       6    s/sacrifying/sacrificing/
>       7    s/transfered/transferred/
> 
> HTH...
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages parallel depends on:
> ii  perl          5.14.2-9
> ii  perl-modules  5.14.2-9
> 
> parallel recommends no packages.
> 
> parallel suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 

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