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([2001:a61:3adb:8201:9649:88f:51f8:6a21]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t141sm3290484wmt.26.2020.07.06.04.01.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:01:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: expm1.3, bogus full stop To: Helge Kreutzmann References: <20200706101221.GA26426@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <5e2ae325-1998-0a72-9e03-b2a0bd0fe6e2@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 13:01:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200706101221.GA26426@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 7/6/20 12:12 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear linux man page maintainer, > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including linux man > pages) 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: expm1.3 > Issue: bogus full stop after infinity > > "Before approximately glibc version 2.11, B() raised a bogus invalid " > "floating-point exception in addition to the expected overflow exception, and " > "returned a NaN instead of positive infinity. for some large positive I " > "values," This page comes from POSIX. I haven't checked whether the problem was in the original source, or introduced during import of the pages. However, I'm going to ignore this one, since it's on my TODO list to move to a more recent set of POSIX manual pages. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/