On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 19:51 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Ondřej Vašík <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I googled a bit about that "french" issue, it was already reported to
> > translation team. Answer was that it could be caused by translation like
> > "report all bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of "report bugs to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" . I don't think so, I guess it is too similar to
> > cause such confusion, I would prefer formulation like "report bugs
> > related to <programname> utility to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" anyway ...
> > will check if it is acceptable by upstream...
>
> Thanks for pursuing that.
> I like the idea and will probably address it with a change like this:
>
> diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h
> index e88b1bb..8577d44 100644
> --- a/src/system.h
> +++ b/src/system.h
> @@ -614,11 +614,12 @@ ptr_align (void const *ptr, size_t alignment)
> static inline void
> emit_bug_reporting_address (void)
> {
> - /* TRANSLATORS: The placeholder indicates the bug-reporting address
> - for this package. Please add _another line_ saying
> - "Report translation bugs to <...>\n" with the address for translation
> + /* TRANSLATORS: The second placeholder indicates the bug-reporting
> + address for this package. Please add _another line_ saying
> + "Report %s translation bugs to <...>\n" with the address for translation
> bugs (typically your translation team's web or email address). */
> - printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
> + printf (_("\nReport %s bugs to <%s>.\n"), last_component (program_name),
> + PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
> }
>
> #include "inttostr.h"
A run with 'LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 chown --help' produced the 'report a bug'
as:
Signaler un bug à <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
This is, literally, "report a bug to ...".
Perhaps it might be another option to ask distributions to replace the
string with a "report a bug to <distribution BTS>".
Regards,
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