Monday, June 26, 2017

bug reporting - Where to report mistakes in a translated man page?


I just discovered a mistake in the German version of the man page for adduser:



Einen System-Benutzer einrichten
Wird adduser ohne die Option --system und mit einem nicht optionalen Argument aufgerufen, richtet adduser einen System-Benutzer ein.



However, in the English version which I'm reading at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man8/adduser.8.html we have



Add a system user
If called with one non-option argument and the --system option, adduser will add a system user.



The mistake is the word ohne (without), which should be replaced by mit (with). This actually confused me for quite some time, so I think it should really be corrected. But where can I report this "bug"? I read here that man page errors are bugs, but the error is only in the translated version.


Edit: Thanks to muclux's answer I have filed a bug report against the project Ubuntu Translations:


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/1743251



See Reporting Bugs - there is a section on translation errors.


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