docs/85127: loader(8) manpage uses too-rare "depuration"

Gary W. Swearingen garys at opusnet.com
Fri Aug 19 17:20:10 UTC 2005


>Number:         85127
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       loader(8) manpage uses too-rare "depuration"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 19 17:20:08 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:

Too few users will know the word "depuration".

Google only found 48k occurances, mostly as biology specialists'
jargon.  If I had managed any guess at all it would have been the
opposite of its actual meaning (purification).

>How-To-Repeat:
n/a

>Fix:

--- loader..orig.8	Thu Aug 18 19:40:42 2005
+++ loader.8	Thu Aug 18 19:41:08 2005
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 .Pp
 .It Ic bcachestat
 Displays statistics about disk cache usage.
-For depuration only.
+For debugging only.
 .Pp
 .It Ic boot
 .It Ic boot Ar kernelname Op Cm ...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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