Re: Errors in NFS man pages

[bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 08:07:46AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Dear NFS maintainer,
> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> man pages both from a large variety of sources (including NFS) 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. I'm not repeating the
> errors reported 2020-05-16, 2021-05-29, if you would like a full
> report, please let me know. If future reports should use another
> channel, please let me know as well.

This is probably fine.

But if it's possible to make these into patches against nfs-utils
(http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git;a=summary), and send
them to steved@redhat.com, cc'd to this list--that would probably get
the fastest response.

--b.

> 
> 
> Man page: nfs.5
> Issue: B<nfsmount.conf(5)> → B<nfsmount.conf>(5)
> 
> "If the mount command is configured to do so, all of the mount options "
> "described in the previous section can also be configured in the I</etc/"
> "nfsmount.conf> file. See B<nfsmount.conf(5)> for details."
> msgstr ""
> "Falls der Befehl »mount« entsprechend konfiguriert ist, können alle in den "
> "vorhergehenden Kapiteln beschriebenen Einhängeoptionen auch in der Datei I</"
> --
> Man page: nfs.5
> Issue: Why is the word "option" in bold?
> 
> "The B<sloppy> option is an alternative to specifying B<mount.nfs> -s "
> "B<option.>"
> 
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