[SCM] UNNAMED PROJECT branch, master, updated. 20090201-1-45-g46c2aeb

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Sun Feb 22 15:14:37 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit edb2e88da02ff8ecffd17210bf59818a4efda7d3
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 22 14:24:37 2009 +0000

    Misc grammatical changes in "About the project"

diff --git a/xml/chapters/about/project.xml b/xml/chapters/about/project.xml
index 2a62793..3c0780c 100644
--- a/xml/chapters/about/project.xml
+++ b/xml/chapters/about/project.xml
@@ -12,15 +12,15 @@
 <sect3>
 <title>What is wrong with current live systems</title>
 
-<para>There are already several Debian-based live systems and they are doing a great job. But, from the Debian perspective, most of them have one or more of the following disadvantages:</para>
+<para>There are already several Debian-based live systems and they are doing a great job. But from the Debian perspective most of them have one or more of the following disadvantages:</para>
 
 <orderedlist>
 <listitem><para>They are unofficial projects, developed outside of Debian.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>They mix different distributions, e.g. testing and unstable.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>They support i386 only.</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>They change package's behavior and/or appearance by stripping them down to save space.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>They modify the behaviour and/or appearance of packages by stripping them down to save space.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>They include unofficial packages.</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>They ship custom kernels with additional patches not part of Debian.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>They ship custom kernels with additional patches that are not part of Debian.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>They are large and slow due to their sheer size and thus not suitable for rescue issues.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>They are not available in different flavours, e.g. CDs, DVDs, USB-stick and netboot images </para></listitem>
 </orderedlist>
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@
 
 <sect3>
 <title>Only unchanged, official packages</title>
-<para>We will only use official packages from the Debian repository, section main or maybe contrib (the use of contrib is not decided yet). The non-free section is not part of Debian and therefore not used at all for the live system.</para>
+<para>We will only use official packages from the Debian repository in the "main" section (possibly contrib, although not decided yet). The non-free section is not part of Debian and therefore cannot be used at all for live systems.</para>
 
 <para>We will not change any packages. Whenever we need to change something, we will do that in coordination with its package maintainer in Debian.</para>
 
-<para>Exception: temporarily, our own packages like &live-helper; or &live-initramfs; may be used from our own repository for development reasons (e.g. to create development snapshots). They will be synced into Debian on a regular basis.</para>
+<para>As an exception, our own packages such as &live-helper; or &live-initramfs; may temporarily be used from our own repository for development reasons (e.g. to create development snapshots). They will be uploaded to Debian on a regular basis.</para>
 </sect3>
 
 <sect3>

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