uxterm man page has a typo

Bug #128136 reported by Սահակ
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xterm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

the first line of uxterm man page is:
"uxterm - X terminal emulator for for Unicode (UTF-8) environments"
it has a repeating "for for" which is a typo.
to reproduce this bug type:
$ man uxterm

the affected file is /usr/share/man/man1/uxterm.1.gz

Micah Cowan (micahcowan)
Changed in xterm:
status: New → Triaged
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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote :

That file is maintained in Debian (I don't recall if it's licensed so I could incorporate it in xterm).

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Right, I'll ask if the manpages could be put upstream :)

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

and I mean asking the Debian folks..

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote : Re: [Bug 128136] Re: uxterm man page has a typo

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Timo Aaltonen wrote:

> and I mean asking the Debian folks..

ok (I don't have it at hand, but will look to see what its status is).

I do maintain the uxterm script (though I seem to recall there is a Debian
patch for that, which uses a nonportable feature).

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Julien Cristau (jcristau) wrote : uxterm manpage

Hi,

I fixed the typo in 229-1.

Thomas, the manpage carries the following licensing information:

.\" Copyright 2001, 2004 Branden Robinson
.\"
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
.\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
.\" to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
.\" the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
.\" and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
.\" Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
.\"
.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
.\" all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
.\"
.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
.\" IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
.\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
.\" SOFTWARE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
.\" OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
.\" ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
.\" DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Cheers,
Julien

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote : Re: [Bug 128136] uxterm manpage

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Julien Cristau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I fixed the typo in 229-1.

thanks
>
> Thomas, the manpage carries the following licensing information:

(on my to-do list - #229 was just to fix some bugs that were distracting
me from other work)

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Thomas E. Dickey
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Marco Rodrigues (gothicx) wrote :

It's fixed on Debian package (229-1) that will be synced for Ubuntu.

Changed in xterm:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in xterm:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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