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| Started by | Ivan Kharpalev <ivan.kharpalev@gmail.com> |
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| First post | 2019-07-07 00:00 +0200 |
| Last post | 2019-07-07 01:30 +0200 |
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Bug#931506: linux-base: "are are" in man 1 perf Ivan Kharpalev <ivan.kharpalev@gmail.com> - 2019-07-07 00:00 +0200
Re: Bug#931506: linux-base: "are are" in man 1 perf Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-07 01:30 +0200
| From | Ivan Kharpalev <ivan.kharpalev@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2019-07-07 00:00 +0200 |
| Subject | Bug#931506: linux-base: "are are" in man 1 perf |
| Message-ID | <yh0SS-1sE-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
Package: linux-base Version: 4.6 Severity: minor Tags: patch Errors in man 1 perf. See patch in the end of the report. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages linux-base depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.72 linux-base recommends no packages. linux-base suggests no packages. -- debconf information: linux-base/removing-title: linux-base/removing-running-kernel: true --- a/man/perf.1 +++ b/man/perf.1 @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ perf \- performance analysis tools for Linux \fBperf\fR [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR] \fICOMMAND\fR [\fIARGS\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION .LP -Performance counters for Linux are are a new kernel\-based subsystem -that provide a framework for all things performance analysis. It +Performance counters for Linux are a new kernel\-based subsystem +that provide a framework for performance analysis. It covers hardware level (CPU/PMU, Performance Monitoring Unit) features and software features (software counters, tracepoints) as well. .LP
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| From | Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> |
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| Date | 2019-07-07 01:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <yh2hX-2qm-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #64383 |
On 7/07/19 9:48 AM, Ivan Kharpalev wrote: > -Performance counters for Linux are are a new kernel\-based subsystem > -that provide a framework for all things performance analysis. It > +Performance counters for Linux are a new kernel\-based subsystem > +that provide a framework for performance analysis. It Strictly speaking that's still not correct English - "performance counters" is plural, the "kernel-based subsystem" is singular, and 'provide' assumes plural again. Perhaps "Performance counters for Linux are provided by a new kernel-based subsystem that provides a framework ..." ... but I don't know anything about this subsystem, so that might be wrong. Richard
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