Re: Errors in man pages of eject

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Hello,

Am So., 13. Feb. 2022 um 08:55 Uhr schrieb Helge Kreutzmann
<debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Dear eject maintainer,
> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> man pages both from a large variety of sources (including eject) 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: eject.1
> Issue:    Markup of command names: eject → B<eject>
>
> "The option tells eject to not try to unmount other partitions on partitioned "
> "devices. If another partition is still mounted, the program will not attempt "
> "to eject the media. It will attempt to unmount only the device or mountpoint "
> "given on the command line."
> msgstr ""
> --
> Man page: eject.1
> Issue 1:  eject → B<eject>
> Issue 2:  than → then
>
> "The option tells eject to not try to unmount at all. If this option is not "
> "specified than B<eject> opens the device with B<O_EXCL> flag to be sure that "
> "the device is not used (since v2.35)."
>
Fix submitted via Github pull request:
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/1601

Best Regards,
Mario




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