Bug#205519: No, the installed size computation won't help you here

2004-07-06 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, I'm sorry, but the installed size is not something you can rely on here, since it's the complete size of the package, and since the user can have separate partitions for, say, /usr, /etc and /var... Sorry, Mt. -- Nos péchés sont têtus, nos repentirs sont lâches ---

Bug#257964: countrychooser: Translation breaks the countries names ordering

2004-07-06 Thread Martin Quinson
Package: countrychooser Version: Translation breaks the countries names ordering Severity: normal Tags: l10n Hello, when using countrychooser in, say, French, the ordering of the countries seems randomized. I'm not sure how to fix that. Either you add a new field to cdebconf for automatically

Bug#257969: netcfg: No ok button when statically configuring the network

2004-07-06 Thread Martin Quinson
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Hello, We've received an installation repport in French on debian-l10n-french. Amongst other things, it states that the fact that there is no ok button while configuring the network manually makes it difficult for users. They have to guess that they need to

Bug#250563: Same problem

2004-07-06 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, we've got an installation repport in french stating the same kind of problem on debian-l10n-french. It looks like that the IDE kernel modules were missing since going back, selecting them and retrying did the trick. Before that, it did state something like here is the liste of partitions

Bug#257964: countrychooser: Translation breaks the countries names ordering

2004-07-06 Thread Martin Quinson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0700, Martin Quinson wrote: Package: countrychooser Version: Translation breaks the countries names ordering Severity: normal Tags: l10n Hello, when using countrychooser in, say, French, the ordering of the countries seems randomized. I'm not sure how

The page http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ point users to a strange version of the testing installer

2004-07-02 Thread martin . quinson
Hi there, and sorry for the cross-post. We got an installation report in french on the list debian-l10n-french (don't ask why there). It seems that the used version was, erm, a bit outdated. I guess it's because the user was wrongly pointed to the ftp.fsn.hu unofficial testing images instead of

l10n infrastructure: using a big DB instead of packages?

2004-06-07 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:32:55PM +0200, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:29:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Actually, this has been causing me to conclude that we probably need a mechanism whereby translators can cause new translations to appear outside of

Re: Update to Debian Installer translators documentation

2004-03-31 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:19:48PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Hi, I'd like to suggest a few changes to doc/translations.txt, wrt to the suggested packages for translation: From the file: Important - debconf man-db console-common netbase ifupdown console-data

Re: Crosswalk - Religion Today Summaries for July 17, 2003

2003-07-19 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:36:07PM -0600, Larry Gilbert wrote: Since no one else is doing anything about this, least of all Crosswalk, I've decided it's time to play hardball. The unsubscribe URLs seem to always be of the form http://link.crosswalk.com/UM/U.asp?A1.x.y;, where x is an

Re: Where could we put web pages about debian-installer on the official debian web server?

2003-07-11 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:25:23AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Martin Quinson] Great, so I guess we can start converting the content of cvs://.../debian-installer/doc/html/ to cvs://.../webwml/english/devel/debian-installer... What about just checking it out from the current CVS

Re: Where could we put web pages about debian-installer on the official debian web server?

2003-07-10 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:51:45AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Josip Rodin] It would seem to me that regardless of anything, we're still waiting for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to say something... We do? I didn't know. I didn't know what we were waiting for, I was just waiting. What

Re: Finnish translation of boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap

2003-07-10 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, I'm pleased to see that boot-floppy is translated in yet another language, and hope that the maintainer will do whatever is needed to get this in the CVS and next releases. But I'm optimistic by nature, and think that the next released version of Debian will use the modern

Re: Where could we put web pages about debian-installer on the official debian web server?

2003-07-08 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:09:21PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:33:09PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: I mail you to ask you what do you think of putting the content of http://people.debian.org/~pere/debian-installer/ under www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

Where could we put web pages about debian-installer on the official debian web server?

2003-07-03 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello debian webmasters, I mail you to ask you what do you think of putting the content of http://people.debian.org/~pere/debian-installer/ under www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ (or elsewhere if this location don't look appropriate to you). FYI, those pages are considered as the official

web page for d-i?

2003-07-02 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, It's maybe time to do an official web page for d-i, centralizing the info available on various people page, and the information about how to translate it. It would help newcommers to get able to help more quickly. I can write the how to translate part, since I already answered the

Re: Bosnian translation of debian-installer

2003-07-01 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Safir Secerovic Linux Zagor wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a Debian user from Bosnia and Herzegovina and would like very much to contribute to Debian by translating everything I could into Bosnian language. Since debian-installer is the first hurdle

Translating d-i (was: Translation)

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:02:21AM +0300, George Papamichelakis wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: Well, if the translations were done against the messages as they were 2 years ago, then they're not much use. If instead you mean they are translations of the current cvs messages, then maybe.

Re: debian-installer status 2003-02-21

2003-03-01 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Larry Gilbert | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: |Also, having somebody with a good touch for English to go |through the templates would be nice. | | I wouldn't mind helping with this, but I can't seem to figure out how |

Re: Russian localized install?

2003-02-06 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:48:01PM +0300, Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:35:04AM -0800, Serge Winitzki wrote: Hi, I recently tried debian 3.0r1 install from CD #1. It offered to make install in several languages but Russian was not one of the available languages. I

Re: Kurdish

2002-12-20 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:49:15PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: At 12:27 +0100 12/19/02, Omezkar zeidler wrote: Hai I am Omezkar Zeidlerfrom Germany (But I com frome Kurdistan,my language is Kurdish).It is real that we have no country but we have a kultur and our Language. I have Debian

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-13 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:26:23PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:37:04PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo écrivait: Oh my. I didn't even realize that debian-installer wasn't a package. Maybe I should burst out the debian-installer/* commits to their actual source packages

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/autopartkit/debian by pere

2002-12-12 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:02:58PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: Repository: debian-installer/tools/autopartkit/debian who:pere time: Wed Dec 11 15:02:58 MST 2002 Log Message: Reinsert versioned depend on po-debconf. This will make sure the templates use UTF-8. The

Re: [patch] cdebconf and i18n

2002-11-12 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:40:02PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:39:44AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: They are in language_country.codeset format. ja_JP is Japan, pt_BR is Brazil. What is the problem? [...] Do you really think that there

Bug#161998: boot-floppies: wrong fr translations

2002-09-27 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:24:12AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: Debian 3.0r0 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed a couple of translation errors in the french l10n, one of which is WILL make user understand the contrary of reality.

Re: [d-i] Testing po-debconf

2002-09-19 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:40:43PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:22:17PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Denis Barbier wrote: I have added debian-installer/tools/netcfg/debian/po/ and a bunch of files. They do not interfere with current templates files, and feel free

Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-11 Thread Martin Quinson
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:32:30PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I would also like to add support for the LANGUAGE style variable listing several languages in priority order to be able to use other translations if the primary translation is missing. I want it to be able to tell the

Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-11 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Martin Quinson] AFAIK, if you are using gettext, setting LANG=nb:nn:da:sv should do the trick since gettext implements fallbacks. No, you are thinking about the LANGUAGE variable. The LANG variable can only

Re: Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates)

2002-09-09 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:07:47AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: Seriously my feeling is that users are getting bored when they choose a language and provided default values do not take this information into accout (when choosing keyboard layout, mirrors, default system language, etc.).

Change to the validator in the makefile of po dir

2002-05-22 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, Here is a patch to the makefile of dbootstrap/po dir, to check against too long messages. It relies on comments to the translators of the good format, and that could be improoved. Can I commit it, or do you have any objections ? Thanks, Mt. Index: Makefile

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by barbier

2002-05-06 Thread Martin Quinson
Je suis bien content de te rendre la main sur ce merdier :) On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 06:08:35PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:barbier time: Sun May 5 18:08:35 PDT 2002 Log Message: Fixes according to French typo rules

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/fr by mquinson

2002-05-05 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:20:56AM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/fr who:mquinson time: Fri May 3 00:20:56 PDT 2002 Log Message: Sync to EN [Pierre Machard] Files: changed:release_notes Where am I supposed to

Re: Small correction

2002-04-11 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:25:25AM -0500, David Stanaway wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:56, Martin Quinson wrote: Hello, On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote: Here is a small correction (sorry for the 80 cols) --- main_menu.c Tue Feb 12 22:29:37

Re: newt boxes displaying problems (translation problem)

2002-04-10 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:16:20PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: Hi, I recently added more TRANS messages saying to keep these under 63 characters. If you see a string that is too long and doesn't have an appropriate TRANS message, please add it. So far all the strings I have seen us

Re: Last problem with text width and translations

2002-04-10 Thread Martin Quinson
Thanks for the repport. Here is what I've set : #: floppy_modules.c:141 main_menu.c:335 main_menu.c:351 main_menu.c:384 #: main_menu.c:414 main_menu.c:434 main_menu.c:452 msgid Preload essential modules from a floppy msgstr Précharger des modules depuis une disquette (I removed the essential

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2002-04-09 Thread Martin Quinson
HEY ! french release note where sync'ed yesterday ! And, thanks to po-debiandoc, even awfully out-of-date documententation can be usefull... Well. I assume we can always grab removed staled version from the CVS tree. Mmm, Mt. On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:14:56PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2002-04-09 Thread Martin Quinson
No problem, I was just surprised :) On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:53:31AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Martin Quinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, thanks to po-debiandoc, even awfully out-of-date documententation can be usefull... Well. I assume we can always grab removed staled version

Re: Small correction

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote: Here is a small correction (sorry for the 80 cols) --- main_menu.c Tue Feb 12 22:29:37 2002 +++ /tmp/main_menu.cSun Apr 7 01:13:12 2002 @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ */ next_action

Re: newt boxes displaying problems (translation problem)

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:41:45PM +0200, thomas poindessous wrote: I think I have found why in a french install, some boxes were displaying over others. I think it's because some french translations are too long and boxes are larger than screen width. I'm not sure, I will test tonight with

Re: Still some problems with CLEAR in bterm and dbootstrap

2002-03-25 Thread Martin Quinson
Thomas, thanks for your testing. Unfortunally, I have no free partition on my small laptop to do this kind of testing. Please report any too long text problem... David, thanks for CCing me, I don't read mails without explicit reference to french or at least translating in the title on the

Re: zh_CN.po broken

2002-03-19 Thread Martin Quinson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:03:50AM +0100, Claus Hindsgaul wrote: Martin Quinson wrote Oh, yes, please stop. It's now the third time in a row that someone complains about your make update-po... I will. I only browse the archives on the web and unfortunately this is the first time I have

Please don't make update-po in a cron tab. Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by claush

2002-03-15 Thread Martin Quinson
I'm currently editing the french version, and now, i have to revert your changes before I can go further. Thanks, Mt. On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:39:44PM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:claush time: Thu Mar 14 14:39:44

Re: Please don't make update-po in a cron tab. Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by claush

2002-03-15 Thread Martin Quinson
the CVS, IMHO. I understand it's a good thing to do a make update-po once a while, but last one was one week ago. It's far too often, i think. Thanks, Mt. On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:37:52AM +, Phil Blundell wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:28, Martin Quinson wrote: I'm currently editing

wording consistance in kbdconfig.c

2002-03-10 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, In kbdconfig.c, the lists take adjectives and noun together, like Belgium or Germany and Bulgarian Cyrillic or Danish. I think it would be better to turn everything to adjectives, like german. But I don't know the english world for Belgium. Belgish ? Belgiumish ? ;) Thanks, Mt. -- Si

Re: ddts support in the BFs

2002-02-18 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:20:11PM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: Hello only one question: can we add support for the translated package description hack in the woody BFs? I'd say: far to late for woody. And moreover, we should have translated description in dpkg in the first place,

Typo in bootconfig.c ?

2002-01-14 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, one can read: The master boot record program that was just installed has features not found in standard MBR programs. A prompt can be triggered on startup by holding down the shift key. It shows the active partition [...] I would say that MBR shows all active partitionS, but I'm not sure

Re: last change in Makefile in utilities/.../po

2001-12-10 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:33:18PM +0300, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: If you remove fuzzy flag for the header in all files, those headers will result in volume increase.. That's not true. msgfmt knows about these headers and don't put them in the compiled mo file. msgfmt fr.po -o

Another translating problem: baseconfig.c

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, What is the purpose of this code (in baseconfig.c): int configure_drivers (void) { struct stat statbuf; #if #cpu (s390) char buffer1[PATH_MAX]; char buffer2[PATH_MAX]; #endif if (! NAME_ISEXE(/usr/bin/whiptail, statbuf))

Re: dbootstrap translation *correctness* for Debian Woody

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, additionnally of the Claus results, I wanted to point out that some translation are not valid. Here are the results a check does on my box. You may have different results, because I use the CVS version of gettext, which makes much more checks (and because I didn't commit the lastest french

Re: last change in Makefile in utilities/.../po

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:43:14PM +0300, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: Are you sure it's a good idea? For example, the file C.po gives an error right away. Are you speaking of: C.po: msgfmt: C.po: warning: Charset CHARSET is not a portable encoding name. Message conversion to user's charset might

Please commit to help the translators (was: What is IPL ?)

2001-12-05 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, Here is a little patch to bootconfig.c which will help the translators : Index: bootconfig.c === RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c,v retrieving revision 1.152 diff -u -r1.152

Re: What is IPL ?

2001-12-04 Thread Martin Quinson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:17:02AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:34:17AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: I'm the french translator of dbootstrap, and I can't translate what I don't understand, so I have to ask it here : What does the following messages mean

What is IPL ?

2001-12-03 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, I'm the french translator of dbootstrap, and I can't translate what I don't understand, so I have to ask it here : What does the following messages mean ? #: bootconfig.c:1555 msgid Running ZIPL to make the kernel able to IPL from the DASD... #: bootconfig.c:2582 msgid ZIPL could not

Re: preliminary results for b-f

2001-11-21 Thread Martin Quinson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:22:41PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: - modconf is well broken: /target/usr/sbin/modconf: cannot create /dev/tty: no such device or addess local; release_notes.en: bad variable name We also need to

Updated dbootstrap french translation

2001-11-19 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, I've updated the french translation of dbootstrap, and the result of my work can be found at www.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/debian (right now, the web server seems to be down, but ..) My problem is that I don't have write access to this part of the cvs server (I have such an access to the

Re: Updated dbootstrap french translation

2001-11-19 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:46:02PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:00:43PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: My problem is that I don't have write access to this part of the cvs server (I have such an access to the web cvs). So, who can commit it ? who should I send

debian-installer is not a valid section [in the policy]

2001-06-01 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello, I'm not a dd, so I can't do this as a formal policy change proposal, but I've noticed that a bunch of packages use the section 'debian-installer', which in not listed in the policy as a valid section (in part 2.1.7). The list of these packages is: ddetect, dhcp, udpkg, cdebconf,