Re: Errors in man pages, here: utmp.5.po: Markup

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann 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.
> 
> **
> 
> Is bold markup in source code ok?

It's unusual, but not problematic, I think.

Thanks,

Michael

> 
> "#define EMPTY         0 /* Record does not contain valid info\n"
> "                           (formerly known as UT_UNKNOWN on Linux) */\n"
> "#define RUN_LVL       1 /* Change in system run-level (see\n"
> "                           B<init>(8)) */\n"
> "#define BOOT_TIME     2 /* Time of system boot (in I<ut_tv>) */\n"
> "#define NEW_TIME      3 /* Time after system clock change\n"
> "                           (in I<ut_tv>) */\n"
> "#define OLD_TIME      4 /* Time before system clock change\n"
> "                           (in I<ut_tv>) */\n"
> "#define INIT_PROCESS  5 /* Process spawned by B<init>(8) */\n"
> "#define LOGIN_PROCESS 6 /* Session leader process for user login */\n"
> "#define USER_PROCESS  7 /* Normal process */\n"
> "#define DEAD_PROCESS  8 /* Terminated process */\n"
> "#define ACCOUNTING    9 /* Not implemented */\n"
> msgstr ""
> "#define EMPTY         0 /* Datensatz enthält keine gültigen Daten\n"
> "                           (früher unter Linux als UT_UNKNOWN\n"
> "                           bekannt) */\n"
> "#define RUN_LVL       1 /* Wechsel des System-Runlevels (siehe\n"
> "                           B<init>(8)) */\n"
> "#define BOOT_TIME     2 /* Zeitpunkt des Systemstarts (in I<ut_tv>) */\n"
> "#define NEW_TIME      3 /* Zeit nach Änderung der Systemuhr\n"
> "                           (in I<ut_tv>) */\n"
> "#define OLD_TIME      4 /* Zeit vor Änderung der Systemuhr\n"
> "                           (in I<ut_tv>) */\n"
> "#define INIT_PROCESS  5 /* Prozess von B<init>(8) erzeugt */\n"
> "#define LOGIN_PROCESS 6 /* Prozessgruppen-Führer für\n"
> "                           Benutzer-Anmeldung */\n"
> "#define USER_PROCESS  7 /* normaler Prozess */\n"
> "#define DEAD_PROCESS  8 /* beendeter Prozess */\n"
> "#define ACCOUNTING    9 /* nicht implementiert */\n"
> 
> 


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