#1082970 ausweisapp: Issues in man pages of AusweisApp

Package:
ausweisapp
Source:
ausweisapp
Description:
Official authentication app for German ID cards and residence permits
Submitter:
Helge Kreutzmann
Date:
2024-09-29 11:00:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1082970#5
Date:
2024-09-29 10:21:08 UTC
From:
To:
Dear AusweisApp maintainer,
the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
man pages both from a large variety of sources (including AusweisApp) as
well for a large variety of target languages.

During their work translators notice different possible issues in the
original (english) man pages. Sometimes this is a straightforward
typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a
convention not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the
original.

We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at
least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some
distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss
the latest upstream version once in a while, so the error might be
already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately
if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and
the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check
each and every issue.

Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format,
i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man,
groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where
possible), but only an approximation which you need to convert into
your source format.

Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are
not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the
problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify
them.

I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports
should use another channel, please let me know.

Man page: AusweisApp.1
Issue:    can * also → can also

"* A compatible NFC device (most NFC readers should work, NFC-enabled phones "
"can * also be used)"
--
Man page: AusweisApp.1
Issue:    ${TMP}/AusweisApp.*.log → I<${TMP}/AusweisApp.*.log>

"By default, AusweisApp writes a log to a file matching ${TMP}/AusweisApp.*."
"log. When the program terminates, it will be deleted. This setting prevents "
"deletion."

"Suppress writing a log file to ${TMP}/AusweisApp.*.log. Logs will still be "
"written to STDOUT."
--
Man page: AusweisApp.1
Issue:    ${TMP}/AusweisApp.E<lt>PIDE<gt>.port → I<${TMP}/AusweisApp.E<lt>PIDE<gt>.port>

"Change the listening port for the WebSocket. Default is 24727. Selecting "
"\"0\" is a special case. AusweisApp will then select a random port and write "
"the port number to a file in ${TMP}/AusweisApp.E<lt>PIDE<gt>.port."
--
Man page: AusweisApp.1
Issue:    Lee Garrett (debian@rocketjump.eu) → E<.MT debian@rocketjump.eu>Lee GarrettE<.ME>

"This man page was written by Lee Garrett (debian@rocketjump.eu) for Debian "
"(but may be used by others)."

#1082970#10
Date:
2024-09-29 10:30:52 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Helge,

Thanks for the bug report. But why not report this particular issue upstream?

The manpage is part of the upstream project source, not the Debian source [1].

I'm CC'ing one of the upstream authors.

Thanks,
Adrian

#1082970#15
Date:
2024-09-29 10:58:32 UTC
From:
To:
tags 1082970 + upstream
thanks.

Hello John,
Am Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 12:30:52PM +0200 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
"This man page was written by Lee Garrett (debian@rocketjump.eu) for Debian "
"(but may be used by others)."

So I (wrongly) assumed that this page was comming from Debian, not from upstream.

Thank you. If this can fixed this way, it would be great. If, on the other hand,
you want me to file it upstream instead, please let me know.

Greetings

         Helge