--- a/mercurial/obsolete.py	Wed Mar 09 10:47:33 2016 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/obsolete.py	Tue Apr 12 03:40:53 2016 -0700
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@
         return len(new)
 
     def delete(self, indices):
-        """Delete some obsmarkers from store and return the number of them
+        """Delete some obsmarkers from store and return how many were deleted
 
         Indices is a list of ints which are the indices
         of the markers to be deleted."""