914897: minor spelling fixes

diff --git a/914897_merged_usr/ballot.md b/914897_merged_usr/ballot.md
index 1f146fe079d797d1d18d9f194f24cd1a80e8a443..dea3c83d038c2b30e3e3db9c093fd96550a6a730 100644 (file)
--- a/914897_merged_usr/ballot.md
+++ b/914897_merged_usr/ballot.md
@@ -39,20 +39,20 @@ It is also possible to merge `/usr` in other ways, for example with `debootstrap
 
 Since the default change in debootstrap 1.0.102, some issues have arisen.
 Due to the fact that some buster/sid hosts have the "merged `/usr`" symlinks in place, it has been observed that some binary packages carried some traces of these differences (notably official packages built on Debian buildd hosts which had been resetup).
-Some such differences can actually render the built packages unuseable on non-"merged `/usr`" systems.
+Some such differences can actually render the built packages unusable on non-"merged `/usr`" systems.
 For example, if `cat` is detected at build-time in `/usr/bin/cat` (where coreutils ships `/bin/cat`), a binary hardcoding that path will try to use `/usr/bin/cat` after installation, but that path doesn't exist in non-"merged `/usr`" systems.
 In order to mitigate this, debootstrap has been modified to let its "buildd" variant be non-"merged `/usr`", the Debian buildds have been resetup and the affected packages rebuilt.
 
-The lesson here is that with the existance of (any of) the usrmerge and the debootstrap default change, "merged `/usr`" Debian systems exist already, and that packages built on hosts with such directory schemes can _potentially_ be broken on non-"merged `/usr`" systems.
+The lesson here is that with the existence of (any of) the usrmerge and the debootstrap default change, "merged `/usr`" Debian systems exist already, and that packages built on hosts with such directory schemes can _potentially_ be broken on non-"merged `/usr`" systems.
 At this point, the two variants have to be supported, at least as installation targets of Debian packages.
 
 Two initiatives are worth mentioning at this point:
 * [a patch](https://lists.debian.org/20181202212535.GC11687@gaara.hadrons.org) has been proposed for dpkg-buildpackage to mark packages built on "merged `/usr`" hosts with a `Build-Tainted-By: merged-usr-via-symlinks`;
 * the reproducible builds team has added a "merged `/usr`" variation to their setup, and have then [tagged](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/paths_vary_due_to_usrmerge_issue.html) the Debian packages from unstable which had differences due to "merged `/usr`". It seems that ~61 packages were affected by differing builds; 32 from these have been fixed in unstable already.
 
-## The long-term desireable situation
+## The long-term desirable situation
 
-Various valid long-term desireable situations coexist, and while discussing immediate countermeasures, it is useful to keep the long-term outcome that those are most likely to produce.
+Various valid long-term desirable situations coexist, and while discussing immediate countermeasures, it is useful to keep the long-term outcome that those are most likely to produce.
 
 These are the six possible situations at the time of bullseye (buster + 1):
 
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ The Technical Committee resolves to decline to override the debootstrap maintain
 
 Furthermore, using its §6.1.5 "Offering advice" power, the Technical Committee considers that:
 
-* A: The desireable solution at the time of bullseye is `weak`; both directory schemes should be allowed, but packages should only be built on hosts with classical directory schemes (or chroots).
+* A: The desirable solution at the time of bullseye is `weak`; both directory schemes should be allowed, but packages should only be built on hosts with classical directory schemes (or chroots).
 
-* B: The desireable solution at the time of bullseye is `hard`; both directory schemes should be allowed, and packages can be built on hosts with either classical or "merged-`/usr`" directory schemes.
+* B: The desirable solution at the time of bullseye is `hard`; both directory schemes should be allowed, and packages can be built on hosts with either classical or "merged-`/usr`" directory schemes.
 
 * FD: Further Discussion