Re: typo in section 11.3?

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:

> "dine" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I am not a native speaker of the English language, but I feel that in
>> the first sentence of section 11.3 of the GNU maintainer info doc, 
>>
>> "Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries proprietary
>> for systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS."
>>
>> the words "proprietary" and "for" are in the wrong order, since the
>> former word modifies the systems according to the context. (I may be
>> wrong, though.)
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you are perfectly right.  :)
> Thanks for reporting this error.

Ping.  Can someone apply this change?

Here is a patch to be applied on top of the other one in:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2015-12/msg00000.html

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Mathieu Lirzin

>From 00348cddca746358fe0122af74ae40d38e9b6b29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:31:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maintain: Fix typo.

* maintain.texi (Binary Distribution): Fix typo by switching "for" and
"proprietary".  Reported by dine <address@hidden>.
---
 ChangeLog     | 3 +++
 maintain.texi | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e424951..11bb720 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2015-12-22  Mathieu Lirzin  <address@hidden>
 
+       * maintain.texi (Binary Distribution): Fix typo by switching "for" and
+       "proprietary".  Reported by dine <address@hidden>.
+
        * maintain.texi (Standard Mailing Lists): Use full email addresses.
 
 2015-04-23  Karl Berry  <address@hidden>
diff --git a/maintain.texi b/maintain.texi
index 76e126e..6ea22b7 100644
--- a/maintain.texi
+++ b/maintain.texi
@@ -1441,8 +1441,8 @@ version, and checking that the result exactly matches the 
new version.
 @node Binary Distribution
 @section Binary Distribution for Nonfree Platforms
 
-Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries proprietary
-for systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS.  It's entirely up to you
+Some package maintainers release pre-compiled binaries for proprietary
+systems such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS.  It's entirely up to you
 whether to do that; we don't ask you to do it, but we don't object.
 Please do not let anyone make you feel you have an obligation to do
 this.
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