Bug#964383: Issues in init-system-helpers man pages

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Package: init-system-helpers
Severity: normal

Dear init-system-helpers maintainer,
the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
man pages both from a large variety of sources (including init-system-helpers) 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: deb-systemd-invoke.1p
Issue: Groff code broken?

"\\&B<deb-systemd-invoke> start|stop|restart I<unitÂ\\ file>Â\\ ..."
--
Man page: deb-systemd-invoke.1p
Issue: 206 → 2006?

"Jan 206"
--
Man page: deb-systemd-invoke.1p
Issue: s/it to/to/

"The I<SCRIPT> parameter specifies a System V init script, located in B</etc/"
"init.d/>I<SCRIPT>.  The supported values of I<COMMAND> depend on the invoked "
"script, B<service> passes I<COMMAND> and I<OPTIONS> it to the init script "
"unmodified.  All scripts should support at least the B<start> and B<stop> "
"commands.  As a special case, if I<COMMAND> is B<--full-restart>, the script "
"is run twice, first with the B<stop> command, then with the B<start> command."
--
Man page: update-rc.d.8
Issue: insserv(8) → B<insserv>(8)

"update-rc.d requires dependency and runlevel information to be provided in "
"the init.d script LSB comment header of all init.d scripts.  See the "
"insserv(8) manual page for details about the LSB header format."
--
Man page: update-rc.d.8
Issue: update-rc.d → B<update-rc.d>

"When invoked with the I<remove> option, update-rc.d removes any links in the "
"B</etc/rc>I<runlevel>B<\\&.d> directories to the script B</etc/init.d/"
">I<name>\\&.  The script must have been deleted already.  If the script is "
"still present then B<update-rc.d> aborts with an error message."

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages init-system-helpers is related to:
ii  insserv  1.18.0-2

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