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-rw-r--r--hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn6
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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn
index c006e554..109864db 100644
--- a/contributing.mdwn
+++ b/contributing.mdwn
@@ -80,6 +80,17 @@ documents.
Debian is currently the Hurd distribution of choice among Hurd users and
developers.
+Things that block a lot of stuff,
+and thus most urgently need porting right now:
+* umount functionality in busybox
+* gtest
+* hdf5
+* hyperestraier
+* sane*
+* ghc (ghc6 and ghc7)
+* gnat
+* ruby1.9.1
+
Here is a
[[list_of_Debian_packages_that_need_porting|hurd/running/debian/porting]].
diff --git a/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn b/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn
index 4586a8e6..e5c8c160 100644
--- a/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ Then you setup the translator /hurd/hello in the file/node hello.
After that you check the contents of the file, and the translator returns "Hello World!".
-To finish it, you tell the translator to go away from the file "hello" via "settrans -g hello" and verify that now the file is empty again.
+To finish it,
+you remove the translator from the file "hello"
+(and tell any active running instances to go away)
+via "settrans -g hello".
+Having done that, verify that now the file is empty again.
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