URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59963>
Summary: Issues in findutils man pages Project: findutils Submitted by: kreutzm Submitted on: Thu 28 Jan 2021 04:46:16 PM UTC Category: find Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Release: None Discussion Lock: Any Fixed Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Dear findutils maintainer, the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of man pages both from a large variety of sources (including Findutils) 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: find.1 Issue: FIXME B<stat(2)> → B<stat>(2) "Find files named B<core> in or below the directory B</tmp> and delete them, " "processing filenames in such a way that file or directory names containing " "single or double quotes, spaces or newlines are correctly handled. The B<-" "name> test comes before the B<-type> test in order to avoid having to call " "B<stat(2)> on every file." -- Man page: find.1 Issue: POSIXLY_CORRECT → B<POSIXLY_CORRECT> "When POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set, B<-perm >I<+zzz> is treated just like B<-" "perm >I</zzz> if I<+zzz> is not a valid symbolic mode. When POSIXLY_CORRECT " "is set, such constructs are treated as an error." -- Man page: find.1 Issue: B<stat(2)> → B<stat>(2) "The B<-name> test comes before the B<-type> test in order to avoid having to " "call B<stat(2)> on every file." -- Man page: find.1 Issue: Quotes around I<>? (for the \\(ti) and I<> → B<> "Copy the contents of I</source-dir> to I</dest-dir>, but omit files and " "directories named I<.snapshot> (and anything in them). It also omits files " "or directories whose name ends in I<'\\(ti'>, but not their contents." _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59963> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/