On 7/6/20 12:14 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear linux man page maintainer, > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including linux man > pages) as well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometimes 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 in 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 convert 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. If future reports > should use another channel, please let me know. > > ** > > Man page: mmap.2 I think you meant: mremap.2... > Issue: Randolf → Randolph > > "Your favorite text book on operating systems for more information on paged " > "memory (e.g., I<Modern Operating Systems> by Andrew S.\\& Tanenbaum, " > "I<Inside Linux> by Randolf Bentson, I<The Design of the UNIX Operating " > "System> by Maurice J.\\& Bach)" Nice catch! Fixed. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
