Re: Errors in man pages of util-linux

[Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>]

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Hello Mario,
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 07:33:07PM +0100, Mario Blättermann wrote:
> Am Do., 10. Feb. 2022 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb Helge Kreutzmann
> <debian@helgefjell.de>:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 08:23:41PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > I will send the issues in individual mails (like last time), without
> > > this header. This will be a total of 84 mails.
> > >
> > > I'll wait with sending for ~ 1 hour in case you would not like to have
> > > them in those e-mails.
> >
> > Mario asked me to provide the issues, therefor I send them to him
> > directly for handling.
> >
> 
> I've fixed most of the issues in my Github fork; see pull request
> #1601. However, there's something left (my comments are in brackets):

Thanks.

My 5 ¢:

> --
> Man page: hwclock.8
> Issue:    date-time → date time??
> 
> "There are two types of date-time clocks:"
> 
> (We have lots of occurences of this "date-time" thing. Don't know
> whether it's good English or bad English …)

It's used quite a few times in the file, so better leave it as is to
be consistent.

> --
> Man page: lsmem.1
> Issue:    The first sentence is broken
> 
> "The B<lsmem> command lists a new memory range always when the current memory "
> "block distinguish from the previous block by some output column. This "
> "default behavior is possible to override by the B<--split> option (e.g., "
> "B<lsmem --split=ZONES>). The special word \"none\" may be used to ignore all "
> "differences between memory blocks and to create as large as possible "
> "continuous ranges. The opposite semantic is B<--all> to list individual "
> 
> (Not sure what this means. I can't remember anymore why I wrote this
> comment more than three years ago …)

Sorry, the english is rather hard to read:
Suggested:
The command B<lsmem> always lists a new memory range when the current
memory block differs from the previous block in some output column.

Greetings

             Helge
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