[Bug 1683] New: Issues in iptables-restore man page

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            Bug ID: 1683
           Summary: Issues in iptables-restore man page
           Product: iptables
           Version: 1.8.x
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5
         Component: iptables-restore
          Assignee: netfilter-buglog at lists.netfilter.org
          Reporter: debian at helgefjell.de

Dear iptables maintainer,
the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
man pages both from a large variety of sources (including iptables) 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.

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Man page: iptables-restore.8
Issue 1:  I<modprobe> → I<modprobe_program>
Issue 2:  I<secs> → I<seconds>
Issue 3:  B<file> → I<file>

"B<iptables-restore> [B<-chntvV>] [B<-w> I<secs>] [B<-W> I<usecs>] [B<-M> "
"I<modprobe>] [B<-T> I<name>] [B<file>]"
--
Man page: iptables-restore.8
Issue 1:  I<modprobe> → I<modprobe_program>
Issue 2:  I<secs> → I<seconds>
Issue 3:  B<file> → I<file>

"B<ip6tables-restore> [B<-chntvV>] [B<-w> I<secs>] [B<-W> I<usecs>] [B<-M> "
"I<modprobe>] [B<-T> I<name>] [B<file>]"
--
Man page: iptables-restore.8
Issue 1:  Inconsistent style - here: small letter, next option capital letter
Issue 2:  Missing full stop

"restore the values of all packet and byte counters"
--
Man page: iptables-restore.8
Issue 1:  /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe → I</proc/sys/kernel/modprobe>
Issue 2:  modprobe → B<modprobe>(8)

"Specify the path to the modprobe program. By default, iptables-restore will "
"inspect /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to determine the executable's path."
--
Man page: iptables-restore.8
Issue:    iptables-restore → B<iptables-restore>

"Harald Welte E<lt>laforge at gnumonks.orgE<gt> wrote iptables-restore based on "
"code from Rusty Russell."
--
Man page: iptables-restore.8
Issue:    ip6tables-restore → B<ip6tables-restore>

"Andras Kis-Szabo E<lt>kisza at sch.bme.huE<gt> contributed ip6tables-restore."
--
Man page: iptables-restore.8
Issue:    B<iptables-apply>(8),B<iptables-save>(8), → B<iptables-apply>(8),
B<iptables-save>(8),

"B<iptables-apply>(8),B<iptables-save>(8), B<iptables>(8)"

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