Re: Errors in man pages of util-linux

[Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca>]

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It is good English. It unifies the two concepts. If they are not separated by
a hyphen, date becomes an adjective of time. It is the type of time called a
date, and I have no idea what that means.


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On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:

> 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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