On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:55:04PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Michael Piefel wrote: > > > Hello Adam, > > > > The meaning of some of dpkg's messages is unclear to me. For instance: > > > > "unable to create updated files nlist file for package %s" > > > > As I'm trying to translate that into German, I am experiencing > > difficulties with the word "nlist". It's also not clear to me how this > > is grouped: Is is "(updated files) (nlist file)" or rather "updated > > (files nlist file)"? It might not matter much in English, but in German > > I can think of a number of different translations... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/pkg.list > /var/lib/dpkg/info/pkg.nlist > > nlist is the extension for a filename. Don't translate it.
Is "unable to create updated %s.nlist files" a valid reformulation of the string? If yes, I guess it would be easier for the translators to handle, and not that less informative for the end-user, wouldn't it? And what about "unable to create updated files %s.nlist containing the list of files installed by that package in a new format" ? From what I can see in the source code, this is very informative, but I guess it is too long and should better be documented somewhere. Is there an existing documentation describing the files living in /var/lib/dpkg/info somewhere, against which I could provide a patch to add this feature present in the head cvs and not in the 1_10 branch? Thanks for your time, Mt. -- Outlook is a good virus spreading tool. It was also doubtfully reported as able to send mail.
