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. > > ** > > Is bold markup in source code ok? It's unusual, but not problematic, I think. Thanks, Michael > > "#define EMPTY 0 /* Record does not contain valid info\n" > " (formerly known as UT_UNKNOWN on Linux) */\n" > "#define RUN_LVL 1 /* Change in system run-level (see\n" > " B<init>(8)) */\n" > "#define BOOT_TIME 2 /* Time of system boot (in I<ut_tv>) */\n" > "#define NEW_TIME 3 /* Time after system clock change\n" > " (in I<ut_tv>) */\n" > "#define OLD_TIME 4 /* Time before system clock change\n" > " (in I<ut_tv>) */\n" > "#define INIT_PROCESS 5 /* Process spawned by B<init>(8) */\n" > "#define LOGIN_PROCESS 6 /* Session leader process for user login */\n" > "#define USER_PROCESS 7 /* Normal process */\n" > "#define DEAD_PROCESS 8 /* Terminated process */\n" > "#define ACCOUNTING 9 /* Not implemented */\n" > msgstr "" > "#define EMPTY 0 /* Datensatz enthält keine gültigen Daten\n" > " (früher unter Linux als UT_UNKNOWN\n" > " bekannt) */\n" > "#define RUN_LVL 1 /* Wechsel des System-Runlevels (siehe\n" > " B<init>(8)) */\n" > "#define BOOT_TIME 2 /* Zeitpunkt des Systemstarts (in I<ut_tv>) */\n" > "#define NEW_TIME 3 /* Zeit nach Änderung der Systemuhr\n" > " (in I<ut_tv>) */\n" > "#define OLD_TIME 4 /* Zeit vor Änderung der Systemuhr\n" > " (in I<ut_tv>) */\n" > "#define INIT_PROCESS 5 /* Prozess von B<init>(8) erzeugt */\n" > "#define LOGIN_PROCESS 6 /* Prozessgruppen-Führer für\n" > " Benutzer-Anmeldung */\n" > "#define USER_PROCESS 7 /* normaler Prozess */\n" > "#define DEAD_PROCESS 8 /* beendeter Prozess */\n" > "#define ACCOUNTING 9 /* nicht implementiert */\n" > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
