On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 08:48, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > ** > > The first sentence is difficult to read, better: > "followed by the number of the day from the I<day> list to be shown as > the first day in calendar applications." > > "followed by the number of the first day from the I<day> list to be shown in " > "calendar applications. The default value of B<1> corresponds to either " > "Sunday or Monday depending on the value of the second I<week> list item. " > "See NOTES." Patched as below. Thanks, Michael diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5 index b9abc3e8e..0a08b64e5 100644 --- a/man5/locale.5 +++ b/man5/locale.5 @@ -1215,9 +1215,9 @@ shall be used for Monday. See NOTES. .TP .IR first_weekday " (since glibc 2.2)" -followed by the number of the first day from the +followed by the number of the day from the .I day -list to be shown in calendar applications. +list to be shown as the first day of the week in calendar applications. The default value of .B 1 corresponds to either Sunday or Monday depending -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
