Hello Hede, thanks for reporting. I'm CC: the translator who wrote this string (or touched it last, I did not check) and the translator who is in charge of handling the translation, both in manpages-de as well as in util-linux-locales.
Am Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 02:08:36PM +0100 schrieb hede:
> Package: util-linux-locales
> Version: 2.40.4-3
> X-Debbugs-CC: deb...@helgefjell.de
> Secerity: minor
>
> For Debian stable / Bookworm it is:
>
> Package: manpages-de
> Version: 4.18.1-1
>
> And this also is still valid for
> util-linux-locales_2.41~rc1-1_all in experimental.
Yes, this translation was moved from manpages-de to
util-linux-locales. After the release of Trixie, manpages-de is no
longer in the loop.
> In file /usr/share/man/de/man1/fallocate.1.gz, which for
> stable/bookworm is in manpages-de and for testing/trixie it is in
> util-linux-locale, there is a misleading reference in the German
> translation for the supported filesystems to parameter -d, --dig-holes.
>
> The sentence in the English man page reads as follows:
> "See --punch-hole for a list of supported filesystems."
>
> This means that the list of supported filesystems is in the
> man page itself. The supported filesystems are listet at the
> description for the parameter --punch-hole.
>
> The German translation currently reads as follows:
> "Mit der Option --punch-hole erhalten Sie eine Liste der unterstützten
> Dateisysteme."
>
> This sound like that you have to run fallocate with the --punch-hole
> parameter to get this list. This is typically quite common, to have a
> specific list like that generated with the program itself, to not
> have to maintain a potentially short-lived list within the man page.
> But it's not correct in this case, the list is in the man page and a
> less ambiguous translation would be, for example:
>
> "Eine Liste der unterstützten Dateisysteme finden Sie bei der Beschreibung
> zur Option --punch-hole."
>
> Or more similar to the original translation:
>
> "Bei der Beschreibung zur Option --punch-hole erhalten Sie eine Liste der
> unterstützten Dateisysteme."
>
> Even a more literal translation would do the trick, yet this would be
> not that unambiguous like the others:
>
> "Siehe --punch-hole für eine Liste der unterstützen Dateisysteme."
I personally like the 2nd version best.
If this is resolved before ~ end of march, I can "backport" the
solution to manpages-l10n/bookworm. Please inform me in this case, as
I'm not monitoring the bug actively.
Greetings
Helge
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