Errors in man pages, here: copysign(3): Suggested improvement

Errors in man pages, here: copysign(3): Suggested improvement

[Helge Kreutzmann]

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.

**

Description, of what is really done, should be improved

msgid "copysign, copysignf, copysignl - copy sign of a number"

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Re: Errors in man pages, here: copysign(3): Suggested improvement

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 4/19/20 8:47 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.
> 
> **
> 
> Description, of what is really done, should be improved
> 
> msgid "copysign, copysignf, copysignl - copy sign of a number"

I do not understand the report. Please elaborate.

Thanks,

Michael



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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

Re: Errors in man pages, here: copysign(3): Suggested improvement

[Helge Kreutzmann]

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Hallo Michael,
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:36:37AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 4/19/20 8:47 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > **
> > 
> > Description, of what is really done, should be improved
> > 
> > msgid "copysign, copysignf, copysignl - copy sign of a number"
> 
> I do not understand the report. Please elaborate.

If you read the text below the description, the function does
something more complex than siply copying the sign of a number, where
I would expect the the result to be either a "+" or a "-" (or maybe 1
or -1). 

The translator simply found this discrepancy when comparing the body
and the NAME part.

Of course, as this is an improvement request, if you do not think it
can (or should) be changed, then please leave it as is.

Greetings

           Helge

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Re: Errors in man pages, here: copysign(3): Suggested improvement

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Helge,

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 21:24, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> wrote:
>
> Hallo Michael,
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:36:37AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > On 4/19/20 8:47 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > **
> > >
> > > Description, of what is really done, should be improved
> > >
> > > msgid "copysign, copysignf, copysignl - copy sign of a number"
> >
> > I do not understand the report. Please elaborate.
>
> If you read the text below the description, the function does
> something more complex than siply copying the sign of a number, where
> I would expect the the result to be either a "+" or a "-" (or maybe 1
> or -1).
>
> The translator simply found this discrepancy when comparing the body
> and the NAME part.
>
> Of course, as this is an improvement request, if you do not think it
> can (or should) be changed, then please leave it as is.

Given that the NAME description should be concise, no real
idea for an improvement springs to mind. I suggest
closing this.

Thanks,

Michael


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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/