Typo in man page of 'ed'

Bug #186121 reported by Dominique Pellé
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ed (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Bug Description

I see a typo in the man page of 'ed' in section 'LINE ADDRESSING':

------
$ man ed
...
The value of the first address in a range cannot exceed the
value of the the second.
...
------

Notice the word 'the' which is repeated twice.

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David Futcher (bobbo) wrote :

Patch for this. Dont know if we want to remove the Ubuntu specific LP part of the changelog and forward to Debian so it can be autosynced for Ibex.

Changed in ed:
status: New → In Progress
Changed in ed:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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David Futcher (bobbo) wrote :

ed (0.7-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * doc/* : Fix spelling/grammar mistake (LP: #186121)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Debian standards version to 3.7.3
    - Add Homepage field
    - Update Maintainer field to match the DebianMaintainerField specification

 -- David Futcher <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:37:36 +0000

New debdiff, changed as per RainCT's suggestions.

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David Futcher (bobbo) wrote :

Another debdiff, fixes the distro.

ed (0.7-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * doc/* : Fix spelling/grammar mistake (LP: #186121)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Debian standards version to 3.7.3
    - Add Homepage field
    - Update Maintainer field to match the DebianMaintainerField specification

 -- David Futcher <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:37:36 +0000

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David Futcher (bobbo) wrote :

This debdiff moves the fix to a dpatch patch.

ed (0.7-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/08_ubuntu-doc-typo-fix.dpatch:
    - Fix spelling/grammar mistake (LP: #186121)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Debian standards version to 3.7.3
    - Add Homepage field
    - Update Maintainer field to match the DebianMaintainerField specification

 -- David Futcher <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:37:36 +0000

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David Futcher (bobbo) wrote :

Sorry messed up on last one. Forgot to remove the *~ files when i was in the dpatch subshell, hence the massive debdiff.

This is all the fixes, spelling mistake dpatched, without the backup files.

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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote :

Uploaded, thanks! :)

Please forward it to Debian.

Changed in ed:
assignee: nobody → rainct
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote :

Err, ed is in main. Subscribing ubuntu-main-sponsors.

Changed in ed:
assignee: rainct → nobody
status: Fix Committed → Triaged
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ed - 0.7-1ubuntu1

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ed (0.7-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/08_ubuntu-doc-typo-fix.dpatch:
    - Fix spelling/grammar mistake (LP: #186121)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Debian standards version to 3.7.3
    - Add Homepage field
    - Update Maintainer field to match the DebianMaintainerField specification

 -- David Futcher <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:37:36 +0000

Changed in ed:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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