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Bug 238692 - app-i18n/man-pages-it ping -w option not documented in Italian man page
Summary: app-i18n/man-pages-it ping -w option not documented in Italian man page
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2008-09-25 21:00 UTC by Daniele C.
Modified: 2008-09-27 06:39 UTC (History)
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Description Daniele C. 2008-09-25 21:00:01 UTC 
The ping -w option is not documented in the relative man page, but works!

Here is an extract from another man page (possibly of another OS):

-w timeout     Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.

I wonder if there are other options and why they are not documented
Comment 1 Ján Bednár 2008-09-26 07:09:49 UTC 
Hi,

I have it in my man page:
...
....
-w deadline
              Specify  a  timeout,  in  seconds, before ping exits regardless of how many packets have been sent or received. In this case ping
              does not stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for deadline expire or until count probes are  answered  or  for  some
              error notification from network.
-W timeout
              Time  to  wait  for a response, in seconds. The option affects only timeout in absense of any responses, otherwise ping waits for
              two RTTs.
...
...

What version of net-misc/iputils do you have?
I have net-misc/iputils-20071127.
Comment 2 Daniele C. 2008-09-26 14:30:07 UTC 
I also have version 20071127, so it must be a translation bug.

Please Cc this bug to Italian translation mantainers
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-09-26 14:54:14 UTC 
Looks like an upstream problem to me...
Comment 4 Daniele C. 2008-09-26 19:23:41 UTC 
yes, sorry for the wrong categorization...

Does somebody know where to post this bug?
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2008-09-26 21:03:27 UTC 
iputils doesnt provide translated man pages ... i dont know where you're getting the italian man page for ping

try running:
qfile /usr/share/man/*/man8/ping.8*
Comment 6 Daniele C. 2008-09-27 06:39:32 UTC 
app-i18n/man-pages-it

I had version 2.65, now installed version 2.80 but problem is still there.

I will post a message in their mailing list.