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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Cc: Util-Linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patches] some proper pluralization, and a bunch of textual fixes
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:38:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130130143829.GC3741@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358956950.25102.140661181364417.13137B26@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:02:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> The first two patches properly pluralize two error messages.  The third
> patch makes some tiny grammar, style and punctuation tweaks to a few
> error messages.  The fourth marks the filedescriptor as optional for the
> -C option of fsck, and adds some missing markup to the man page, corrects
> a word there, and expands an abbreviation for clarity.  The ninth patch
> then slices the help text of fsck into single options, for ease of
> translation maintenance.  (I hadn't seen Sami's survey request nor its
> results until today -- his request had landed in my spam folder.  :|
> But I fully agree with the outcome.)
> 
> The fifth patch corrects the description of the --sysroot option of lscpu,
> and the tenth patch then slices the text into single options.
> 
> The sixth patch removes the incorrect spaces from "-e [=list]" and
> "-p [=list]" in the lscpu manpage, normalizes the spacing of the text,
> and corrects a word here and there.  The seventh patch normalizes
> the help text of mkfs (using <type> instead of TYPE, for example),
> marks that -t and fs-options are independent (a distinction that has
> gone missing in a commit a year and a half ago), and slices it into
> strips.  The eighth patch standardizes the version reporting to:
> "program from util-linux-x.xx.x".

 Applied, thanks.

 Note that

    fputc(USAGE_SEPARATOR, out);

 is incorrect, the separator is string, must be fputs().

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-30 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23 16:02 [patches] some proper pluralization, and a bunch of textual fixes Benno Schulenberg
2013-01-25 16:36 ` Karel Zak
2013-01-25 17:17   ` Benno Schulenberg
2013-01-30 14:38 ` Karel Zak [this message]

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