* Correct syntax error (sentence fragment missing) regarding the ldd

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

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index e8f29fa220d9dfb6007cd722e2e3bb13e558fc50..f9cb97043e390964f4680657a7b6b4598b778e19 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -764,8 +764,7 @@
                These packages provide a reasonably small but not too
                limited character-mode system.  This is what will be
                installed by default if the user doesn't select anything
-               else.  It doesn't include many large applications.
-               .</p>
+               else.  It doesn't include many large applications.</p>
            </item>
            <tag><tt>optional</tt></tag>
            <item>
@@ -3758,8 +3757,8 @@ Replaces: mail-transport-agent
            <p>
              In the past, the shared libraries linked to were
              determined by calling <prgn>ldd</prgn>, but now
-             <prgn>objdump</prgn> to do this.  The only change this
-             makes to package building is that
+             <prgn>objdump</prgn> is used to do this.  The only
+             change this makes to package building is that
              <prgn>dpkg-shlibdeps</prgn> must also be run on shared
              libraries, whereas in the past this was unnecessary.
              The rest of this footnote explains the advantage that
@@ -3962,7 +3961,7 @@ dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/usr/bin/* debian/tmp/usr/sbin/* \
 
        <p>
          Each <tt>shlibs</tt> file has the same format.  Lines
-         beginning with <tt>#</tt> are considered to be commments and
+         beginning with <tt>#</tt> are considered to be comments and
          are ignored.  Each line is of the form:
          <example compact="compact">
 <var>library-name</var> <var>soname-version-number</var> <var>dependencies ...</var>