Hello Helge,

thanks for the quick reply.

Am 16.05.25 um 16:12 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> tags 110587 + patch pending
> thanks
> 
> Hello Marcel,
> thanks for spotting and reporting, including the fix.
> 
> Am Fri, May 16, 2025 at 02:36:59PM +0200 schrieb [email protected]:
>> in the german manpage for tmpfiles.d(5) in the section
>> "KONFIGURATIONSDATEIFORMAT" subsection "Typmodifikatoren" the
>> description of the "-" modifier reads:
>>> Falls das Minuszeichen (»-«) verwandt wird, wird ein Fehlschlag bei
>>> der Ausführung dieser Zeile während der Erstellung (und nur der
>>> Erstellung) nicht zu der Ausführung von systemd-tmpfiles führen und
>>> einen Fehler zurückliefern.
>> Which IMHO does not have the same meaning as the corresponding C-locale
>> version of this manpage:
>>> If the minus sign ("-") is used, this line failing to run successfully
>>> during create (and only create) will not cause the execution of
>>> systemd-tmpfiles to return an error.
>>
>> (IMHO the "…nicht zu der Ausführung von systemd-tmfiles führen…" part is
>> pretty confusing.)
>>
>> I think the German version should probably say something along the lines
>> of:
>>
>>   Falls das Minuszeichen (»-«) verwandt wird, wird ein Fehlschlag bei
>>   der Ausführung dieser Zeile während der Erstellung (und nur der
>>   Erstellung) nicht dazu führen, dass die Ausführung von
>>   systemd-tmpfiles einen Fehler zurückliefert.
> 
> You are right. I applied your update and pushed it to the repository.
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee that this reaches Trixie directly,
> so watch for the first backport later this year.

This is not /that/ much of an issue for me as I use Sid most of the
time, but I will keep this in mind once I upgrade my other (stable)
systems to Trixie. I did not know that the manpages are also included in
the backports, that's good to know, thanks!

Greetings

Marcel
> 
> Greetings
> 
>          Helge

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