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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | bug#53946: Errors in man pages of GNU_coreutils |
Date: | Sat, 12 Feb 2022 18:50:48 +0000 |
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On 12/02/2022 05:57, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Dear coreutils maintainer, the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of man pages both from a large variety of sources (including coreutils) 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: arch.1 Issue: missing markup (B<>) "uname(1), uname(2)"
I'm not sure about marking up references like this. There should be enough context from the reference for the man page reader to display appropriately. For e.g. I use vim to display man pages, and references like this are highlighted, and can be followed. Also looking at other projects, I don't see explicitly highlighted referenced man pages.
Man page: expand.1 Issue: Missing full stop "use comma separated list of tab positions The last specified position can"
Already fixed upstream.
Man page: ls.1 Issue: seems to be an unnecessary split of paragraphs; join with next one "can be augmented with a B<--sort> option, but any use of B<--sort>=I<\\,none" "\\/> (B<-U>) disables grouping" -- Man page: ls.1 Issue: seems to be an unnecessary split of paragraphs; join with next one msgid "that points to a directory" --
Yes good point. The issue here is those newlines are generated due to inconsistent indentation. Attached is a patch to ls to make the indentation consistent.
Man page: ls.1 Issue 1: LS_COLORS → B<LS_COLORS>
There are other env vars mentioned. I'm not sure why this one, or any should be highlighted.
Issue 2: dircolors → B<dircolors>(1)
Good point re the (1). Added in second patch.
Man page: rmdir.1 Issue: join this string with the next one "is non-empty" "ignore each failure that is solely because a directory"
Added in third patch. I also noticed an erroneous blank line added in the man page after the first option. I adjusted the column of the description to 21 to avoid that, and in a further (4th) patch I adjusted the description column of --help and --version is all commands to use column 21 also.
Man page: test.1 Issue: [ → test "Full documentation E<lt>https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/[E<gt>"
This is subtle. The link above (with [) does actually work. Though I notice it's not highlighted appropriately by gnome-terminal at least, so would be better to use "test" instead. This is done in patch 5.
Man page: unexpand.1 Issue: Missing full stop "use comma separated list of tab positions The last specified position can"
Already fixed upstream. Marking this as done. cheers, Pádraig
0005-doc-avoid-using-is-URLS-in-help-output.patch
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0004-doc-adust-help-version-alignment.patch
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0003-doc-rmdir-improve-help-formatting.patch
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0002-doc-ls-reference-dircolors-1-from-help.patch
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0001-doc-ls-improve-help-formatting.patch
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