Binary package hint: update-manager
I spell-checked the files in hardy.tar.gz that update-manager downloads when upgrading from gutsy to hardy.
(I was originally looking at it to see if I was missing anything by just using aptitude, so I could remove instead of upgrade some packages, and choose different ways of resolving conflicts.)
Anyway, I noticed enough typos that I thought it would benefit from spell checking by a native English speaker. I used emacs's ispell mode, which works pretty well for doing a batch of files, since you can just let it add all the python variable and function names to the local temporary local dictionary. That highlighted cases where a function/variable name was typoed in a comment, or even in code in one case.
I fixed many typos, and some grammar and awkward language, in error and dialogue strings. I fixed on typo in an environment variable name, and another in a variable name that was mis-typed in an error-handling block. There were many spelling errors in the code comments, which I fixed, but I didn't try to re-word many of the comments, since they're not user-visible.
I haven't tried to verify that the code still works, since I'm done upgrading to Hardy beta (using aptitude, which worked nicely). I do know a little Python, and most of the changes are in comments and logging strings, not in anything that other code looks at.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Peter,
thanks for including the corrections. It would be a big help if you could also provide a diff between your version of the files and the original version so that a developer can review the changes