Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> (2020-05-03): > When the hard disk contains multiple partitions, each with a Debian-based > distro (in my case: Xubuntu, Elementary, MX Linux, and Linux Mint) and each > of these distros is localized, then updating each system in turn results in > the grub.cfg file of each system getting larger and larger with each upgrade. > > The cause is that the 40grub2 script does not recognize the automatically > added menu references to the other distros because the relevant grep command > checks for the word "on". And in translations, this word will be different.
My first hunch would be, given languages are tricky: “Don't assume
anything! Can it be that depending on the language, the device might
get mentioned first, and other words get postfixed instead?”
> - elif echo "$title" | grep -q '(on
> /dev/[^)]*)$'; then
> + elif echo "$title" | grep -q '(\w\+
> /dev/[^)]\+)$'; then
In which case maybe matching '(.*/dev/[^)]\+.*)' would make the fix a
little more general? (Don't trust that pattern too much, -ENOCOFFEE…)
And indeed, looking at grub2's po/*.po (e.g. in buster), checking the
translations (msgstr) for that message (msgid), excluding those wih %s
at the end, and those without any translations, we can see:
(buster-amd64-devel)kibi@armor:/tmp/grub2-2.02+dfsg1$ grep -A1 '^msgid "(on
%s)"' po/*.po | grep po-msgstr | grep -v '%s)"' | grep -v 'po-msgstr ""'
po/ja.po-msgstr "<b>依存プラグイン:</b>"
po/pa.po-msgstr "(%s ਉੱਤੇ)"
po/tr.po-msgstr "(%s üzerinde)"
→ Punjabi, and Turkish wouldn't be fixed.
→ Japanese is apparently suffering from fuzzy translations, which
explains why the format doesn't even look similar.
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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