Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> schrieb am Di., 23. Nov. 2021, 22:14:
> Hi! > > On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 18:16:30 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > while updating the translation of the man pages, I stumbled over one > > sentence I could not make sense of: > > > > "The file mode check failed (since dpkg 1.21.0). This check currently > > only applies to regular files that have a known digest, and on the > > filesystem are not regular files." > > > > The part after the "and" is unclear. A filesystem without regular > > files? > > Hmm, right when writing that I did pause for a bit thinking whether it > was clear or not, but I guess my bias tricked me. :) Let me retry: > > The file mode check failed (since dpkg 1.21.0). This check currently > only applies to pathnames that have a known digest and are not regular > files on the filesystem. > Sorry for the phone answer, but as I had to read that three times, I figured I'd note that. I think I got it now: There is a conflict between having a digest and being an irregular file. First I wondered: Huh is this checking digests of such files, this makes no sense? I was like, should this be an or? Second I forgot. Turn the "and" into a "but" and I think it gets OK. Currently the contradiction is not easy to deduct. Or write explicitly that having a digest conflicts with actually not being s regular file.
