Re: Errors in NFS man pages

[Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>]

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Hello Bruce,
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:33:21PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, given more than > 100 upstreams and very limited man power this
is not possible. I would be really glad if you could handle them, even
if this takes more time (better late than never).

Thanks for taking care!

Greetings

         Helge

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