Re: typo in section 11.3?

[Mathieu Lirzin]

ping.

Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> "dine" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I am not a native speaker of the English language, but I feel that in
>>> the first sentence of section 11.3 of the GNU maintainer info doc, 
>>>
>>> "Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries proprietary
>>> for systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS."
>>>
>>> the words "proprietary" and "for" are in the wrong order, since the
>>> former word modifies the systems according to the context. (I may be
>>> wrong, though.)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think you are perfectly right.  :)
>> Thanks for reporting this error.
>
> Ping.  Can someone apply this change?
>
> Here is a patch to be applied on top of the other one in:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2015-12/msg00000.html
>
> --
> Mathieu Lirzin
>
>
>>From 00348cddca746358fe0122af74ae40d38e9b6b29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:31:38 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] maintain: Fix typo.
>
> * maintain.texi (Binary Distribution): Fix typo by switching "for" and
> "proprietary".  Reported by dine <address@hidden>.
> ---
>  ChangeLog     | 3 +++
>  maintain.texi | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index e424951..11bb720 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
>  2015-12-22  Mathieu Lirzin  <address@hidden>
>  
> +     * maintain.texi (Binary Distribution): Fix typo by switching "for" and
> +     "proprietary".  Reported by dine <address@hidden>.
> +
>       * maintain.texi (Standard Mailing Lists): Use full email addresses.
>  
>  2015-04-23  Karl Berry  <address@hidden>
> diff --git a/maintain.texi b/maintain.texi
> index 76e126e..6ea22b7 100644
> --- a/maintain.texi
> +++ b/maintain.texi
> @@ -1441,8 +1441,8 @@ version, and checking that the result exactly matches 
> the new version.
>  @node Binary Distribution
>  @section Binary Distribution for Nonfree Platforms
>  
> -Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries proprietary
> -for systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS.  It's entirely up to you
> +Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries for proprietary
> +systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS.  It's entirely up to you
>  whether to do that; we don't ask you to do it, but we don't object.
>  Please do not let anyone make you feel you have an obligation to do
>  this.

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Mathieu Lirzin