Public bug reported:
When running apt purge or any dpkg operation that triggers the database reading
message, the plural form string "%d files and directories currently installed"
falls back to the pt (Portugal) locale translation, displaying "ficheiros e
diretórios" instead of the correct Brazilian Portuguese "arquivos e diretórios".
The root cause is that the plural form entry for %d files and directories
currently installed (located in lib/dpkg/db-fsys-files.c) is missing from the
pt_BR.mo file packaged in Noble (24.04). When dpkg cannot find the translation
in pt_BR, it falls back to the generic pt locale which contains the Portuguese
from Portugal translation.
This has already been fixed in Ubuntu 26.10 (Stoking) — the correct
translation was added on 2025-02-11 by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
via Launchpad Translations. A backport to Noble would fix the issue for
Mint 22.3 and Ubuntu 24.04 users.
Steps to reproduce:
Set locale to pt_BR.UTF-8
Run sudo apt purge <any-package>
Observe "ficheiros e diretórios" in the database reading line
Expected: %d arquivos e diretórios atualmente instalados
Actual: %d ficheiros e diretórios atualmente instalados
** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
dpkg displays "ficheiros e diretórios" (Portuguese from Portugal)
instead of "arquivos e diretórios" (Brazilian Portuguese) when
removing packages
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