trivial: fix typo 'informations'

In English, unlike in French, almost all usages of the word 'information' are uncountable, meaning that 'informations' is invalid.

This patch fixes this typo throughout the tree, except in CHANGES and docs/news.html (historic text).

Signed-off-by Thomas De Schampheleire <[email protected]>

---
 board/minnowboard/readme.txt |  2 +-
 package/pkg-autotools.mk     |  2 +-
 package/pkg-cmake.mk         |  2 +-
 package/pkg-generic.mk       |  4 ++--
 package/pkg-luarocks.mk      |  2 +-
 package/pkg-python.mk        |  2 +-
 support/scripts/xorg-release |  4 ++--
 7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff -r e79d6f3e1d9c -r 377347124030 board/minnowboard/readme.txt

board/minnowboard/readme.txt +1 -1

@@ -36,5 +36,5 @@
 
  4. Enjoy
 
-Additional informations about this board can be found at
+Additional information about this board can be found at
 http://www.minnowboard.org/.

diff -r e79d6f3e1d9c -r 377347124030 package/pkg-autotools.mk

package/pkg-autotools.mk +1 -1

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this autotools infrastructure requires
-# the .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the
+# the .mk file to only specify metadata information about the
 # package: name, version, download URL, etc.
 #
 # We still allow the package .mk file to override what the different

diff -r e79d6f3e1d9c -r 377347124030 package/pkg-cmake.mk

package/pkg-cmake.mk +1 -1

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this CMake infrastructure requires
-# the .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the
+# the .mk file to only specify metadata information about the
 # package: name, version, download URL, etc.
 #
 # We still allow the package .mk file to override what the different

diff -r e79d6f3e1d9c -r 377347124030 package/pkg-generic.mk

package/pkg-generic.mk +2 -2

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # In terms of implementation, this generic infrastructure requires the
 # .mk file to specify:
 #
-#   1. Metadata informations about the package: name, version,
+#   1. Metadata information about the package: name, version,
 #      download URL, etc.
 #
 #   2. Description of the commands to be executed to configure, build

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@
 # already defined. For some variables (version, source, site and
 # subdir), if they are undefined, we try to see if a variable without
 # the HOST_ prefix is defined. If so, we use such a variable, so that
-# these informations have only to be specified once, for both the
+# this information has only to be specified once, for both the
 # target and host packages of a given .mk file.
 
 $(2)_TYPE                       =  $(4)

diff -r e79d6f3e1d9c -r 377347124030 package/pkg-luarocks.mk

package/pkg-luarocks.mk +1 -1

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this LuaRocks infrastructure requires
-# the .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the
+# the .mk file to only specify metadata information about the
 # package: name, version, etc.
 #
 ################################################################################

diff -r e79d6f3e1d9c -r 377347124030 package/pkg-python.mk

package/pkg-python.mk +1 -1

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # infrastructure
 #
 # In terms of implementation, this Python infrastructure requires the
-# .mk file to only specify metadata informations about the package:
+# .mk file to only specify metadata information about the package:
 # name, version, download URL, etc.
 #
 # We still allow the package .mk file to override what the different

diff -r e79d6f3e1d9c -r 377347124030 support/scripts/xorg-release

support/scripts/xorg-release +2 -2

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
             return m.group(2)
     return None
 
-# Augment the informations of the X.org list of packages (given as
+# Augment the information of the X.org list of packages (given as
 # argument) by details about their packaging in Buildroot. Those
 # details are found by looking at the contents of package/x11r7/.
 def get_buildroot_pkgs(packages):

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
         version = buildroot_get_version(d)
         if packages.has_key(pkgname):
             # There is a X.org package of the same name, so we just
-            # add informations to the existing dict entry.
+            # add information to the existing dict entry.
             packages[pkgname]['br-version'] = version
             packages[pkgname]['br-name'] = d
         else:

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Thomas, All,

On 2014-07-24 20:07 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:

Quoted 2 lines

In English, unlike in French, almost all usages of the word 'information' are uncountable, meaning that 'informations' is invalid.

Indeed.

But I really wonder why you would even mention French? :-] /me hides... ;-)

In English, unlike in French, almost all usages of the word 'information' are uncountable, meaning that 'informations' is invalid.
This patch fixes this typo throughout the tree, except in CHANGES and docs/news.html (historic text).

Signed-off-by Thomas De Schampheleire <[email protected]>