Hello Christoph, Am Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 08:29:22AM +0200 schrieb Christoph Biedl: > Control: tags 1104315 moreinfo -patch > > Helge Kreutzmann wrote... > > > Dear Debian file maintainer, > > the manpage-l10n project[1] maintains a large number of translations of > > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including file) as > > well for a large variety of target languages. > > Allow me being blunt: The story *how* a particular issue was found is > often a bit interesting - we're still human beings after all - but in > general not much more than a bit. So my suggestion, keep this short.
Acknowledged, however, often I was asked the opposite, to be more
verbose and explaining the background.
> > I'm now reporting the issues for your project. If future reports
> > should use another channel, please let me know.
>
> BTS is fine, keep it this way.
>
> > Man page: file.1
> > Issue: file → <.NM>
> >
> > "E<.Em Note:> This Debian version of file was built without seccomp
> > support, "
> > "so this option has no effect."
>
> This however leaves me in the void. You tagged the report "patch" which
> in my opinion is acceptable even if it's just a description of the
> proposed change, not something to be fed to patch(1) - however from the
> above I cannot see what is supposed to be different.
The "patch" askes to replace the word "file" with the string "<.NM>".
I assume this was the man page is again consistent, this is why the
respective translator flagged it this way.
If you don't agree, perfectly fine, then I mark this in our sources so
it will not be reported again.
Greetings
Helge
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