Fix some typos in docs and translations (thanks to timeless, closes: 368665)

10 files changed, 23 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/COMPILING b/COMPILING
index fadbe171b..5ea5e52d1 100644
--- a/COMPILING
+++ b/COMPILING
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ To compile this you need a couple things
     g++ 2.8 works OK and newer egcs work well also. Nobody has tried it
     on other compilers :< You will need a properly working STL as well.
   - A C library with the usual POSIX functions and a BSD socket layer. 
-    If you OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine:
+    If your OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine:
       http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html      
   - Refer to the Build-Depends information in debian/control for
     additional requirements (some of which are Debian-specific)
 
 ** NOTICE **
 The C++ global constructors do not link correctly when using non-shared
-libaries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have
+libraries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have
 not yet had time to devise a work around for it. The correct thing to 
 do is add a reference to debSystem in apt-pkg/init.cc, 
 assert(&debSystem == 0) would be fine for instance.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ I don't really care if your not-SUS OS doesn't work. It is simply too
 much work to maintain patches for dysfunctional OSs. I highly suggest you
 contact your vendor and express intrest in a conforming C library.
 
-That said, there are lots of finniky problems that must be delt with even
+That said, there are lots of finicky problems that must be dealt with even
 between the supported OS's. Primarily the path I choose to take is to put
 a shim header file in build/include that transparently adds the required 
 functionality. Patches to make autoconf detect these cases and generate the 
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ Current shims:
   * C99 integer types 'inttypes.h' 
   * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD/old-glibc statfs to SUS statvfs
   * rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname.
-    The more adventerous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those
+    The more adventurous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those
     OS's with IPv6 support but no rfc2553 (why?)
   * define _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE to bring in h_errno on HP-UX
   * socklen_t shim in netdb.h if the OS does not have socklen_t
   
-The only completely non-shimed OS is Linux with glibc2.1, glibc2.0 requires
+The only completely non-shimmed OS is Linux with glibc2.1, glibc2.0 requires
 the first three shims.
 
 Platform Notes
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ OpenBSD
 HP-UX
   HP-UX nyquist B.10.20 C 9000/780 2016574337 32-user license
   - Evil OS, does not conform very well to SUS
-     1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurios warnings
+     1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurious warnings
      2) No socklen_t
      3) Requires -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED for h_errno
     configure should fix the last two (see above)
diff --git a/README.make b/README.make
index c043f10f6..69d79d37a 100644
--- a/README.make
+++ b/README.make
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ cd into it to edit your source code!
 
 The make system also performs dependency generation on the fly as the
 compiler runs. This is extremely fast and accurate. There is however
-one failure condition that occures when a header file is erased. In
+one failure condition that occurs when a header file is erased. In
 this case you should run make clean to purge the .o and .d files to
 rebuild.
 
-The final significant deviation from normal make practicies is 
-in how the build directory is managed. It is not mearly a mirror of
+The final significant deviation from normal make practices is 
+in how the build directory is managed. It is not nearly a mirror of
 the source directory but is logically divided in the following manner
    bin/
      methods/
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ the source directory but is logically divided in the following manner
      apt-pkg/
    obj/
      apt-pkg/
-     cmndline/
+     cmdline/
      [...]
 Only .o and .d files are placed in the obj/ subdirectory. The final compiled
 binaries are placed in bin, published headers for inter-component linking
 are placed in include/ and documentation is generated into doc/. This means
-all runnable programs are within the bin/ directory, a huge benifit for
+all runnable programs are within the bin/ directory, a huge benefit for
 debugging inter-program relationships. The .so files are also placed in
 bin/ for simplicity.
 
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ Autoconf
 ~~~~~~~~
 Straight out of CVS you have to initialize autoconf. This requires 
 automake (I really don't know why) and autoconf and requires doing 
-  aclocal -I buidlib
+  aclocal -I buildlib
   autoconf
-[Altertatively you can run make startup in the top level build dir]
+[Alternatively you can run make startup in the top level build dir]
 
 Autoconf is configured to do some basic system probes for optional and 
 required functionality and generate an environment.mak and include/config.h 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ build include/ dir and perhaps writing some replacement code and
 linking it in. To the fullest extent possible the source code should conform
 to standards and not cater to broken systems.
 
-Autoconf will also wite a makefile into the top level of the build dir, 
+Autoconf will also write a makefile into the top level of the build dir, 
 this simply acts as a wrapper to the main top level make in the source tree.
 There is one big warning, you can't use both this make file and the
 ones in the top level tree. Make is not able to resolve rules that 
diff --git a/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc b/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc
index 59f994cd7..2e2a976bb 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ void pkgProblemResolver::MakeScores()
       
       signed short &Score = Scores[I->ID];
       
-      /* This is arbitary, it should be high enough to elevate an
+      /* This is arbitrary, it should be high enough to elevate an
          essantial package above most other packages but low enough
 	 to allow an obsolete essential packages to be removed by
 	 a conflicts on a powerfull normal package (ie libc6) */
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.h b/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.h
index fad6d1da9..e28071e81 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
      ConfigFile - Means this flag should be interprited as the name of 
                   a config file to read in at this point in option processing.
                   Implies HasArg.
-     ArbItem    - Means the item is an arbitary configuration string of
+     ArbItem    - Means the item is an arbitrary configuration string of
                   the form item=value, where item is passed directly
                   to the configuration class.
    The default, if the flags are 0 is to use Boolean
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc
index eacc7077a..3a0abc5a8 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ string Base64Encode(const string &S)
 									/*}}}*/
 // stringcmp - Arbitary string compare					/*{{{*/
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-/* This safely compares two non-null terminated strings of arbitary 
+/* This safely compares two non-null terminated strings of arbitrary 
    length */
 int stringcmp(const char *A,const char *AEnd,const char *B,const char *BEnd)
 {
diff --git a/apt-pkg/orderlist.cc b/apt-pkg/orderlist.cc
index 616714e29..ca18f1d75 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/orderlist.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/orderlist.cc
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
          ordering.  
    
    Each of the features can be enabled in the sorting routine at an 
-   arbitary priority to give quite abit of control over the final unpacking
+   arbitrary priority to give quite abit of control over the final unpacking
    order.
 
    The rules listed above may never be violated and are called Critical.
diff --git a/buildlib/copy.mak b/buildlib/copy.mak
index 15f448827..3ae11a7eb 100644
--- a/buildlib/copy.mak
+++ b/buildlib/copy.mak
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- make -*-
 
-# This installs arbitary files into a directory
+# This installs arbitrary files into a directory
 
 # Input
 # $(SOURCE) - The documents to use
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 09087421e..72c4f9c41 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 apt (0.7.15~exp4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
-  * 
+  [Luca Bruno]
+  * Fix some typos in docs and translations (thanks to timeless, closes: 368665)
 
  -- Luca Bruno <lethalman88@gmail.com>  Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:00:18 +0200
 
diff --git a/doc/ja/apt.ent.ja b/doc/ja/apt.ent.ja
index 3fa931ae5..d63342461 100644
--- a/doc/ja/apt.ent.ja
+++ b/doc/ja/apt.ent.ja
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
       <term><option>-o</option></term>
       <term><option>--option</option></term>
 <!--
-     <listitem><para>Set a Configuration Option; This will set an arbitary
+     <listitem><para>Set a Configuration Option; This will set an arbitrary
       configuration option. The syntax is <option>-o Foo::Bar=bar</option>.
      </para>
 -->
diff --git a/po/cy.po b/po/cy.po
index ba949eb7f..fcc70d423 100644
--- a/po/cy.po
+++ b/po/cy.po
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ msgstr ""
 "  -q   Disable progress indicator.\n"
 "  -i   Show only important deps for the unmet command.\n"
 "  -c=? Read this configuration file\n"
-"  -o=? Set an arbitary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp\n"
+"  -o=? Set an arbitrary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp\n"
 "See the apt-cache(8) and apt.conf(5) manual pages for more information.\n"
 
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