Package: bash
Version: 3.0-16
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n
Bash wraps empty strings in N_(). In a PO file, the empty string is
the header message, and so when they're translated, the header gets
inserted. For example:
$ unset LC_ALL
$ export LC_MESSAGES=en_US
$ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$ bash -c "help let" | head -16
let: let arg [arg ...]
Each ARG is an arithmetic expression to be evaluated. Evaluation
is done in fixed-width integers with no check for overflow, though
division by 0 is trapped and flagged as an error. The following
list of operators is grouped into levels of equal-precedence
operators.
The levels are listed in order of decreasing precedence.
Project-Id-Version: GNU bash 3.0-rc1
POT-Creation-Date: 2003-12-22 15:34-0500
PO-Revision-Date: 2003-12-22 15:34-0500
Last-Translator: Automatically generated
Language-Team: none
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: [email protected]
Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);
The source file bash/po/bash.pot file lists the places that attempt to
translate the emptry string. Most of them are in builtins.c, so
mkbuiltins.c will be need to be fixed. I can try to come up with a
patch if you'd like.
For examples of this bug in other programs, see e.g.
http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/Mar-2005/msg00086.html
http://bugs.debian.org/79852
-jim
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii passwd 1:4.0.3-31sarge1 change and administer password and
-- no debconf information
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