On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear manpages maintainers. > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as > well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention > not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original. > > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss > the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check > each and every issue. > > Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, > i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, > groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where > possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into > your source format. > > Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are > not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the > problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify > them. > > I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If > future reports should use another channel, please let me know. > > ** > > Section → section? > > msgid "The manual Sections are traditionally defined as follows:" > -- > "B<NAME>\n" > "B<SYNOPSIS>\n" > "CONFIGURATION [Normally only in Section 4]\n" > "B<DESCRIPTION>\n" > "OPTIONS [Normally only in Sections 1, 8]\n" > "EXIT STATUS [Normally only in Sections 1, 8]\n" > "RETURN VALUE [Normally only in Sections 2, 3]\n" > "ERRORS [Typically only in Sections 2, 3]\n" > "ENVIRONMENT\n" > "FILES\n" > "VERSIONS [Normally only in Sections 2, 3]\n" > "ATTRIBUTES [Normally only in Sections 2, 3]\n" > "CONFORMING TO\n" > "NOTES\n" > "BUGS\n" > "EXAMPLE\n" > "B<SEE ALSO>\n" "Section" is intended here as a proper noun, and hence in capitals. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
