[hardening-discuss] Bug#806526: hardening-includes: Typos in manpage

[Ben Wiederhake]

Package: hardening-includes
Version: 2.7
Severity: minor
Tags: newcomer

Dear Maintainer,

currently, the manpage for hardening-check contains a few typos and broken
sentences that make it hard to read.

These are what I found while reading it (via "man hardening-check") :

- Section "Fortify Source functions", sentence "This causes certain unsafe
glibc functions [sic]with their safer counterparts (e.g. strncpy instead of
strcpy)"
  -> Missing "to be replaced" at my mark?
- Same section, end of the sentence, "insteade[sic]"
  -> s/insteade/instead/
- All "-no*" options: "No[sic] not require that the checked binaries be built"
  -> Did you mean "Do not"?
- Why can't the program "codespell" find these typos? At the very minimum,
"insteade" should be detected. Resolving this might uncover further typos.
- Probably separate thing: What is "hardening-check.sh" do? It seems to
duplicate the functionality, contain a broken old version of the man page, and
is not in the BZR repository.

If the answer on most of those is "yes", I can try to make a patch for it.

Regards,
Ben Wiederhake



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages hardening-includes depends on:
ii  binutils  2.25.1-7
ii  make      4.0-8.2
ii  perl      5.20.2-6

hardening-includes recommends no packages.

hardening-includes suggests no packages.

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