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([2001:a61:2482:101:3351:6160:8173:cc31]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 33sm7075312wrp.5.2020.04.19.12.38.23 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: strftime(3): Typo To: Helge Kreutzmann References: <20200419064830.GA32282@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <76841608-b55c-3126-537e-0201847db3e0@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:38:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200419064830.GA32282@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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. > > ** > > three of -> three or > > "B<%G>, B<%g>, and B<%V> yield values calculated from the week-based year " > "defined by the ISO\\ 8601 standard. In this system, weeks start on a " > "Monday, and are numbered from 01, for the first week, up to 52 or 53, for " > "the last week. Week 1 is the first week where four or more days fall within " > "the new year (or, synonymously, week 01 is: the first week of the year that " > "contains a Thursday; or, the week that has 4 January in it). When three of " > "fewer days of the first calendar week of the new year fall within that year, " > "then the ISO 8601 week-based system counts those days as part of week 53 of " > "the preceding year. For example, 1 January 2010 is a Friday, meaning that " > "just three days of that calendar week fall in 2010. Thus, the ISO\\ 8601 " > "week-based system considers these days to be part of week 53 (B<%V>) of the " > "year 2009 (B<%G>); week 01 of ISO\\ 8601 year 2010 starts on Monday, 4 " > "January 2010." 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/