bug#45358: Wrong CA certificate on translationproject.org

2021-02-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Op 17-02-2021 om 10:28 schreef Nekolyanich: > I find this https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=45358 recently. Cannot reproduce. Downloading any project's PO files with wget works fine here -- no complaints about certificates. Why does your wget complain when curl and Firefox have no

bug#43707: [PATCH] stat: use a colon before a list, and don't use backticks as quotes

2020-09-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
* src/stat.c (usage): Replace a mistaken semicolon with a colon, and replace mistaken backticks with single quotes. Also reorder some words, for clarity. --- src/stat.c | 8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c index

bug#26621: hint for translators is missing from POT file, but is opaque anyhow

2017-04-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, at 09:38, Paul Eggert wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > It would be nicer to use a fixed number of > > decimals so that the message doesn't unnecessarily "jump". > > Yes, and since the messages you're talking about are supposed to come out

bug#26621: hint for translators is missing from POT file, but is opaque anyhow

2017-04-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Commit 2dab6cd3c2e18eb574b24e54fba86a33c80b6a27 changed the progress messages for dd, but in doing so separated the instruction/hint for translators from the call to ngettext(). For xgettext to pick up such comments, the comment must end of the line directly before the call. So the current POT

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

2015-09-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015, at 20:14, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net> writes: > > Or does it just mean that when ONLRET is set that the receiving > > end will do also a CR when a LF is received? The tty doesn't do > > any conversi

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

2015-09-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015, at 13:26, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > [...] If ONLRET is set, the NL character is assumed to do the > carriage-return function; [...] Otherwise, the NL character is > assumed to do just

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

2015-09-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
service worth paying for. Try it for free From c8fa3c8dbfa58512ab7efe0aa162cb8da7ffdc09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:54:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] stty: improve the wording of the CR-LF translation options * src/st

bug#20406: tr French translation

2015-04-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On 2015-04-22 22:19, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/22/2015 11:05 AM, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos wrote: Thank you for forwarding my mail to the proper channel. I haven't been able to find information on how to report translation bugs on the web site:

bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used

2015-01-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Just now I noticed that 'du --version | tail -2' produces here this: Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund), David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert kaj Jim Meyering. whereas I expected it to produce this: Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund), David MEKENZI (David MacKenzie),

bug#17277: improve translator comment

2014-04-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
From 9443f57b045ee203f9cb772b3a4893b7eaa20419 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:26:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] remove: improve translator comment by reinstating older version * src/remove.c (prompt): Explain where the difficulty

bug#14976: [patch] use semicolons in option descriptions, not periods

2013-08-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hello Pádraig, On Sat, Aug 3, 2013, at 18:08, Pádraig Brady wrote: - -d, --directorylist directory entries instead of contents, - and do not dereference symbolic links + -d, --directorylist just names of directories, not their

bug#14976: [patch] use semicolons in option descriptions, not periods

2013-08-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013, at 13:28, Pádraig Brady wrote: The latest patch is attached, with all the above discussed changes. I'll wait for confirmation before pushing. Ack. The patch is fine, with the spello corrected. Bernhard, in my opinion can be is better than the too «pressing» is one of or

bug#14976: [patch] use semicolons in option descriptions, not periods

2013-08-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013, at 22:28, Pádraig Brady wrote: Also I was thinking of doing: - -d, --directorylist directories themselves, not their contents\n\ + -d, --directoryfor directories, list themselves, not their contents\n\ Hmmm... I don't like that. The

bug#14976: [patch] use semicolons in option descriptions, not periods

2013-08-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hello Pádraig, On Fri, Aug 2, 2013, at 10:11, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/01/2013 08:56 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: A semicolon is a sentence separator too; it just avoids the need for a capital starter letter and a finishing period. Well generally there should be some tenuous

bug#14976: [patch] use semicolons in option descriptions, not periods

2013-08-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hello Pádraig, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013, at 19:02, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 07/28/2013 08:27 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Attached patch replaces in several usage texts some periods with semicolons, removes from them several inconsistent final periods, properly double-indents continuation

bug#14976: [patch] use semicolons in option descriptions, not periods

2013-07-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
- Accessible with your email software or over the web From 2bac2f05a68bc3534b54b480469f58bfd2489c8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:54:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] textual: use semicolon instead of period

bug#13680: [patch] numfmt: do not gettextize developer debugging messages

2013-02-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be From 9de8dd37bcc0af2bd702113a04349eebb09ef0c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:02:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] doc: do not gettextize debugging messages meant for developers * src

bug#13681: [patches] numfmt: standardize synopsis and docstring, and slice up helptext

2013-02-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
590c544d02ceecb30f5ac72e77e603a415ad8b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:16:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] doc: standardize the synopsis and docstring of command 'numfmt' * src/numfmt.c: Correct synopsis and make command description clearer. --- src

bug#13681: [patches] numfmt: standardize synopsis and docstring, and slice up helptext

2013-02-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013, at 21:01, Pádraig Brady wrote: I'll apply this for the upcoming release. Thanks. Just to be sure: this will require a pre3, if translations are meant (where possible) to be complete. Oh, and one small overlooked typo still: -positive N will right-aligned; +positive N

bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer

2013-02-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013, at 16:54, Pádraig Brady wrote: But I'll note that error reading and error writing are quite unambiguous and fit well to indicate partial failure of the operation. If we used failed to write, then it might imply that nothing was written etc. To both points: +1. So I've

bug#12913: gettextizing an overlooked string in 'uptime'

2013-01-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ping? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service

bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer

2013-01-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013, at 21:06, Paul Eggert wrote: - error (0, errno, _(reading %s), quote (src_name)); + error (0, errno, _(error reading %s), quote (src_name)); Surely a translator who read the message in context will see that it's an error message, since 'error' is

bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer

2013-01-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
improvements for a bunch of those messages. Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... From 1bb86c6f228f16bd4e15a83bac81f5fe521fe55e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 22:45:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] textual: improve

bug#13410: [patch] tiniest of uniformizations for msgids

2013-01-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
, no pop-ups email service From 1874463b2f554378cd2b71f21b3b0fc03f7b116a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 22:07:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ln: make a help text fragment identical to three others * src/ln.c (usage): Move a newline

bug#12913: [patch] an overlooked string in 'uptime'

2012-11-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Well, tiny patch says everything. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_quotes.html From 855f5c860acb350125476765cf064f6ccc4d2aaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11

bug#12658: [patches] some undocumented options in chcon

2012-11-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012, at 11:17, Jim Meyering wrote: Please ping us if they're not applied soon after 8.20. Ping. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again

bug#12658: [patches] some undocumented options in chcon

2012-10-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
to ignored. Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... From 9ccf1c6e310d559362a25d88c3246e47f1687a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:06:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] cp: with option -n option -f is not redundant

bug#12334: [patches] two tiny textual fixes for 'touch'

2012-09-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012, at 18:10, Jim Meyering wrote: Sure, but please s/recognized/accepted/. Then let it be, as for me accepted means just about the opposite of ignored. I chose recognized because 'touch' reacts to an option it does not know at all with: unrecognized option. $ touch --the bell

bug#12334: [patches] two tiny textual fixes for 'touch'

2012-09-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Attached two patches slightly improve the help text and documentation of 'touch'. Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service From 5df770d0e0b1d64d18a1ca0885f334e98e892f35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date

bug#12334: [patches] two tiny textual fixes for 'touch'

2012-09-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012, at 13:54, Jim Meyering wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: -Ignored; for compatibility with BSD versions of @command{touch}. +Ignored; recognized for compatibility with BSD versions of @command{touch}. This seems understandable to me already. Yes, with a little thought

bug#12212: [patch] dd's help text contains superfluous word

2012-08-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
for BLOCKS (now N) -- this to avoid the awkward word combination of BYTES bytes. Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html From 31596e328019702857dcb1760c76d7a27b32c75c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb

bug#7254: [patch] making md5sum's --quiet and --warn independent, plus some comments

2010-10-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
the default. By the way, why is there a short option for --warn, but not for --quiet and --status? Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class From 600424f36d056388eab2c5fa9df1eaa79bc686b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Tue, 19

bug#7243: [patch] making md5sum's warnings clearer

2010-10-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
.) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... From fc5460ed05561a9754754993f7aadd541eb98c1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:35:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] md5sum: print a summary warning for improperly formatted lines

bug#6516: [patch] improving error messages for when 'ln' fails

2010-06-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
From 05939f3bf8907f9ae9f36d72e521d934c49daf37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:00:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ln: print a clearer error message when linking fails --- src/ln.c | 10 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5

Re: several wording mistakes in FAQ

2009-11-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hola Bob, On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:32 -0700, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: If not, ´file names that start with a dot´ are not an example but an explication. Maybe write it as follows: ...I never see hidden files, that is dot files, that is files whose names

Re: several wording mistakes in FAQ

2009-11-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi Bob, On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:36 -0600, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: In item 14: wild-cards - wildcards, wild card - wildcard A spell checker error. Corrected. Still one present: you provided a wild card - wildcard In item 18: e.g. files with names

Re: ls --help: further tweak

2009-09-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:16 +0200, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: +Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and\n\ +with --color=never. Okay with me. It forces is disabled to describe a state also for the option. (In some translations this won't work, though. But

ls --help: further tweak

2009-09-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
(Sorry for breaking thread. I am using the archives and webmail.) Jim Meyering quoted Pádraig Brady's change: Using color to distinguish types of files is not enabled by default, or when\n\ --color=never is specified. [...] Hmm, the above is not quite grammatical. Paraphrased: Something

Re: ls --help: further tweak

2009-09-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:53 +0200, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: +Using color to distinguish file types is disabled by default, and with\n\ +--color=never. With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only when\n\ +standard output is connected to a terminal. The thing is: the explicit is

several wording mistakes in FAQ

2009-09-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, On http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ the second paragraph says: This master location of this document is available online at ... It should probably read either The master location of this document is: ... or The master version of this document is available online at ... In the

Re: table of contents of manual contains mistake

2009-09-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:34 +0100, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: I've just pushed: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=8aeda9b Thanks. Since that change versions 7.5 and 7.6 have been released, but

Re: final batch of tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-09-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jim Meyering wrote: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - ngettext (WARNING: % PRIuMAX of % PRIuMAX - listed file could not be read, + ngettext (WARNING: % PRIuMAX file could not be read, ... Ok, but rather, how about rewording

Re: output of 'date' is not properly localized

2008-09-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: (with LC_TIME and LC_ALL unset): $ LANG=da_DK.utf8 src/date søn aug 31 13:21:21 CEST 2008 The day and month are reversed and the year is at the end instead of after the month. Ping? Benno ___ Bug-coreutils mailing

Re: descriptions of 'who' differ

2008-09-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Git does mention -p, -r and -t, but out of order. Attached patch puts them in their alphabetical positions, and removes the duplication of -H. Ping? Benno ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http

Re: final batch of tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-09-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Attached the last of the series of tiny fixes for string problems Ping? Benno ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: descriptions of 'who' differ

2008-09-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: The texts from 'who --help' and 'info who' say different things. The latter does not mention the options -p, -r and -t. Oops, I was looking at 6.12. instead of git. Git does mention -p, -r and -t, but out of order. Attached patch puts them in their alphabetical

output of 'date' is not properly localized

2008-08-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:09:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] date: call nl_langinfo with proper argument --- src/date.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/date.c b/src/date.c index 3cfcc62

descriptions of 'who' differ

2008-08-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, The texts from 'who --help' and 'info who' say different things. The latter does not mention the options -p, -r and -t. It further mentions -H twice, does not list -l, --login and --lookup in their alphabetical positions, and says that -s is ignored, but it is not entirely: it

final batch of tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
in an unrelated string makes this awkward. So the patch moves it to the relevant strings, even though this means some duplication. Benno From 4e00ae1354aa80baebf5ac3d2e1efc2c2a779ef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:24:38 +0200 Subject

Re: moot and unposixy error message

2008-08-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Andreas Schwab wrote: But the sum can overflow, and since the involved types are unsigned this has defined (wrap-around) behaviour. Thanks. I felt I must be overlooking something, but couldn't figure out what. Further, the Open Group says that 'od' should not produce an error when '-j'

moot and unposixy error message

2008-08-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, In src/od.c around line 1820 it says this: if (limit_bytes_to_format) { end_offset = n_bytes_to_skip + max_bytes_to_format; if (end_offset n_bytes_to_skip) error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _(skip-bytes + read-bytes is too large)); } Since max_bytes_to_format cannot be

'echo' does not ignore other arguments with --help or --version

2008-08-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Most of the coreutils tools will ignore all other arguments when --help or --version is given, but not 'echo': $ /bin/echo --help ignore this --help ignore this $ /bin/echo --version ignore this --version ignore this But it says that it would: $ /bin/echo --help | grep help --help

Re: tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hello Jim, Jim Meyering wrote: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND...]\n\ +Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND]\n\ How about this instead, to make it consistent with env --help: -Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND...]\n\ +Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]\n\ Yes

tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, While updating the Dutch translation for coreutils, I came across a few small inconsistencies. Attached patches fix those. Benno From 0cceb3fb67b07d7ca50e65f85aaf6b9eeb487939 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:52:59 +0200 Subject

redundancy in description of 'cp -a'

2007-11-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Since option -d of 'cp' includes the function of -P, mentioning the latter in the description of option -a is redundant and therefore slightly confusing, as the reader tries to figure out what it adds. - -a, --archivesame as -dpPR\n\ + -a, --archivesame

Re: redundancy in description of 'cp -a'

2007-11-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jim Meyering wrote: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - -a, --archivesame as -dpPR\n\ + -a, --archivesame as -dpR\n\ Thank you! Applied and pushed. The same change is needed in the texi file. :) (This should teach me to provide a complete

Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

2007-10-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
(Sorry for breaking thread, I'm not subscribed.) Jim Meyering wrote: Clytie Siddall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. This is a fatal error for msgfmt: #: src/expr.c:133 #, c-format msgid \n ARG1 * ARG2 arithmetic product of ARG1 and ARG2\n ARG1 / ARG2 arithmetic