Errors in cpio man pages

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Dear cpio maintainer,
the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
man pages both from a large variety of sources (including cpio) 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: cpio.1
Issue: Strange characters in man page

"Controlsи warning display.  The I<FLAG> is one of B<none>, to disable all "
"warnings, B<all> to enable them, B<truncate>, to enable warnings about field "
"truncation, and B<no-truncate>, to disable them."
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Man page: cpio.1
Issue: s/wither//

"The output archive name can be specified wither using this option, or using "
"B<-F> (B<--file>), but not both."
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Man page: cpio.1
Issue: Inconsistent spelling, above i-node

"Renumber inodes when storing them in the archive."
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Man page: cpio.1
Issue: `B<-o>' → B<-o> (and similar)

"This will take all the files in the current directory, the directories below "
"and place them in the archive tree.cpio.  Again the `B<-o>' creates an "
"archive, and the `B<-v>' option shows you the name of the files as they are "
"archived.  see ``Copy-out mode''.  Using the `B<.>' in the find statement "
"will give you more flexibility when doing restores, as it will save file "
"names with a relative path vice a hard wired, absolute path.  The `B<-"
"depth>' option forces `B<find>' to print of the entries in a directory "
"before printing the directory itself.  This limits the effects of "
"restrictive directory permissions by printing the directory entries in a "
"directory before the directory name itself."
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Man page: cpio.1
Issue 1: cpio → B<cpio>
Issue 2: -u → B<-u>
"This will take the contents of the archive tree.cpio and extract it to the "
"current directory.  If you try to extract the files on top of files of the "
"same name that already exist (and have the same or later modification time) "
"cpio will not extract the file unless told to do so by the -u option.  see "
"``Copy-in mode''."

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