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. > > ** > > use of we > > "POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, and POSIX.2, provided the environment variable " > "B<POSIXLY_CORRECT> is set. Otherwise, the elements of I<argv> aren't really " > "I<const>, because we permute them. We pretend they're I<const> in the " > "prototype to be compatible with other systems." POatched as below. Thanks, Michael diff --git a/man3/getopt.3 b/man3/getopt.3 index eb840d045..9cedb05d5 100644 --- a/man3/getopt.3 +++ b/man3/getopt.3 @@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ provided the environment variable is set. Otherwise, the elements of \fIargv\fP aren't really .IR const , -because we permute them. -We pretend they're +because these functions permute them. +Nevertheless, .I const -in the prototype to be compatible with other systems. +is used in the prototype to be compatible with other systems. .IP The use of \(aq+\(aq and \(aq\-\(aq in .I optstring -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
