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authorjoey <joey>2001-02-15 04:58:28 +0000
committerjoey <joey>2001-02-15 04:58:28 +0000
commit88e188b9522cee85a86e4a4e0e76cdf71e0c891a (patch)
treed4e0fa18dc0461b7da34e1b5155981119408f456 /debhelper.pod
parent455756d1bb8afa6ed981d5a22dbeae69b0c914d7 (diff)
downloaddebhelper-88e188b9522cee85a86e4a4e0e76cdf71e0c891a.tar.gz
r446: spelling patch
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@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ act on.
=head2 Debhelper compatability levels
-From time to time, major non-backwards-compatabile changes need to be made
+From time to time, major non-backwards-compatible changes need to be made
to debhelper, to keep it clean and well-designed as needs change and its
author gains more experience. To prevent such major changes from breaking
existing packages, the DH_COMPAT environment variable was introduced.
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ This mode is deprecated.
=item V2
-Setting DH_COMPAT=2 causes debhelper to consitently use debian/<package>
+Setting DH_COMPAT=2 causes debhelper to consistently use debian/<package>
as the package tree directory for every package that is built.
=item V3
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ Setting DH_COMPAT=3 does everything V2 does, plus:
=item -
Debhelper config files support globbing via * and ?, when appropriate. To
-turn this off and use those characters raw, just prefix with a backspash.
+turn this off and use those characters raw, just prefix with a backslash.
=item -
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ debhelper to your Build-Depends line in debian/control.
=item DH_VERBOSE
-Se to 1 to enable verbose mode. Debhelper will output every command it runs
+Set to 1 to enable verbose mode. Debhelper will output every command it runs
that modifies files on the build system.
=item DH_COMPAT
@@ -286,12 +286,12 @@ Specifies what compatability level debhelper should run at. See above.
=item DH_NO_ACT
-Se to 1 to enables no-act mode.
+Set to 1 to enable no-act mode.
=item DH_OPTIONS
Anything in this variable will be prepended to the command line
-arguments of all debhelper commands. This in useful in some situations,
+arguments of all debhelper commands. This is useful in some situations,
for example, if you need to pass -p to all debhelper commands that will be
run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to build depend on "debhelper >= 1.1.17" --
older debhelpers will ignore it and do things you don't want them to. One very