Re: Errors in man pages, here: atanh.3

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Hello Helge,

Fixed as 'is set'. Thanks for the report.

Cheers,

Michael

On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 19:05, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear Linux manpages maintainer,
> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> man pages both from a large variety of sources (including Linux
> Manpages) 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: atanh.3
> Issue: as set → was set
>
> "In glibc 2.9 and earlier, when a pole error occurs, I<errno> as set to "
> "B<EDOM> instead of the POSIX-mandated B<ERANGE>.  Since version 2.10, glibc "
> "does the right thing."
>
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Michael Kerrisk
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