On 7/6/20 12:17 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: strcmp.3
> Issue: The programm output says byte, the fourth line in the code says characters
>
> " if (res == 0) {\n"
> " printf(\"E<lt>str1E<gt> and E<lt>str2E<gt> are equal\");\n"
> " if (argc E<gt> 3)\n"
> " printf(\" in the first %d characters\\en\", atoi(argv[3]));\n"
> " printf(\"\\en\");\n"
> " } else if (res E<lt> 0) {\n"
> " printf(\"E<lt>str1E<gt> is less than E<lt>str2E<gt> (%d)\\en\", res);\n"
> " } else {\n"
> " printf(\"E<lt>str1E<gt> is greater than E<lt>str2E<gt> (%d)\\en\", res);\n"
> " }\n"
Wow! Nice catch! Code changed.
Cheers,
Michael
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Michael Kerrisk
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