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Bug#931506: linux-base: "are are" in man 1 perf

Started byIvan Kharpalev <ivan.kharpalev@gmail.com>
First post2019-07-07 00:00 +0200
Last post2019-07-07 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

#64383 — Bug#931506: linux-base: "are are" in man 1 perf

FromIvan Kharpalev <ivan.kharpalev@gmail.com>
Date2019-07-07 00:00 +0200
SubjectBug#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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FromRichard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
Date2019-07-07 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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