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* [PATCH] docs: misc-utils: change "allows to <verb>" to "allows <verb>ing"
@ 2020-07-10  1:53 Bjarni Ingi Gislason
  2020-07-14  8:51 ` Karel Zak
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason @ 2020-07-10  1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: util-linux

  The web site "lintian.debian.org" shows some examples of "allows to",
which are changed to "allows one to".

  I chose here to use gerund.

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
---
 misc-utils/findmnt.8 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/misc-utils/findmnt.8 b/misc-utils/findmnt.8
index 128793451..e411c3010 100644
--- a/misc-utils/findmnt.8
+++ b/misc-utils/findmnt.8
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ The standard columns always use the new version of the information from the
 mountinfo file, except the umount action which is based on the original
 information cached by
 .BR findmnt (8).
-The poll mode allows to use extra columns:
+The poll mode allows using extra columns:
 .RS
 .TP
 .B ACTION
-- 
2.27.0

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