Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: base-config Version: 2.12 Severity: normal Tags: d-i
When running in french language, the apt-setup/another template is incomplete. It seems that the MESSAGE variable which is set just before calling db_input is empty while it should contain the output of ngettext.
This is not french-specific, but happens also for german and, I guess, for all languages but english (MESSAGE is not empty when using english)
I strongly suspect this comes from a misunderstanding of plural forms handling.
By looking at the ru.po files, I found three forms msgstr[0], msgstr[1] and msgstr[2].
Isn't the [0] form for being used when COUNT=0, the [1] when COUNT=1 and [2] when COUNT>1
This would explain what I found. All languages but lt, ru and uk would then need adding a [2] form for plural.
This is what I did for french, though not being really sure... May someone confirm? Denis?
Ukrainian and Russian use one form for singular (also used for numbers ending 1) and two forms for plurals. So there is 3 translations in po files. As far as I know there are only 2 forms in French. So you must use only 2 translations for French.
See also info gettext "Plural forms" ;-)
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