Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index ed837bed1724a19e2ab2d6967ed7b8ca6e376d6f..a52a83ca46d471ae9f90a5dea76320d9021cc382 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@
              <p>
                In the past, people specified the full version number
                in the Standards-Version field, for example "2.3.0.0".
-               Since minor patch-level changes don"t introduce new
+               Since minor patch-level changes don't introduce new
                policy, it was thought it would be better to relax
                policy and only require the first 3 components to be
                specified, in this example "2.3.0".  All four
@@ -1685,7 +1685,7 @@ Package: libc6
 
       <p>
        The version number format is:
-       &lsqb;<var>epoch</var><tt>:</tt>&rsqb;<var>upstream_version</var>&lsqb;<tt>-</tt><var>debian_revision</var>&rsqb;
+       [<var>epoch</var><tt>:</tt>]<var>upstream_version</var>[<tt>-</tt><var>debian_revision</var>]
       </p>
 
       <p>
@@ -7071,7 +7071,10 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
                      "view" in a multiple-document interface (MDI).
                    </p>
                  </footnote>
-                 and runs the specified <var>command</var>.
+                 and runs the specified <var>command</var>,
+                 interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command
+                 line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the 
+                 manner that <tt>xterm</tt> does.
                </p></item>
 
              <item><p>