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diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod index 285ec1bd..1aeec099 100644 --- a/debhelper.pod +++ b/debhelper.pod @@ -237,22 +237,22 @@ act on. From time to time, major non-backwards-compatible changes need to be made to debhelper, to keep it clean and well-designed as needs change and its author gains more experience. To prevent such major changes from breaking -existing packages, the concept of debhelper compatability levels was -introduced. You tell debhelper which compatability level it should use, and +existing packages, the concept of debhelper compatibility levels was +introduced. You tell debhelper which compatibility level it should use, and it modifies its behavior in various ways. -You tell debhelper what compatability level to use by writing a number to +Tell debhelper what compatibility level to use by writing a number to debian/compat. For example, to turn on V4 mode: % echo 4 > debian/compat -These are the available compatablity levels: +These are the available compatibility levels: =over 4 =item V1 -This is the original debhelper compatability level, and so it is the default +This is the original debhelper compatibility level, and so it is the default one. In this mode, debhelper will use debian/tmp as the package tree directory for the first binary package listed in the control file, while using debian/<package> for all other packages listed in the control file. @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile by dh_installdeb. =item V4 -This is the reccommended mode of operation. It does everything V3 does, +This is the recommended mode of operation. It does everything V3 does, plus: =over 8 @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ plus: =item - dh_makeshlibs -V will not include the debian part of the version number in -the generated dependancy line in the shlibs file. +the generated dependency line in the shlibs file. =item - @@ -344,9 +344,9 @@ debian/<package>/usr/lib/menu/ before installing the menu files, etc. Once your package uses debhelper to build, be sure to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line in debian/control. You should -build-depend on a verson of debhelper equal to (or greater than) the -debhelper compatability level your package uses. So if your package used -compatability level 4: +build-depend on a version of debhelper equal to (or greater than) the +debhelper compatibility level your package uses. So if your package used +compatibility level 4: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4) |