Bug#326482: partman requires plural form for strings

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

reassign 326482 partman-crypto
thanks

(or reassign it to debconf?)

Quoting Denis Barbier (barbier@linuxfr.org):
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 07:05:46PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> > Subject: partman requires plural form for strings
> > Package: partman
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have found this msgid which belongs to partman. It should have plural
> > form because of the variable ${MINIMUM}.
> > 
> > You entered a passphrase that consists of less than ${MINIMUM} characters,
> > which is considered too weak. You should choose a stronger passphrase.
> 
> Unfortunately this is not possible, because debconf templates do not
> support plural forms.  But this value is hardcoded as 8 in
> partman-crypto/blockdev-keygen.


I'll add a comment about this in the templates. This is all that we
can do.

Before someone says it, saying that MINIMUM will never be equal to 1
is not enough. Some languages have different plural forms for various
numbers above 1. For instance, in Russian, IIRC, all numner ending
with "1" use singular. And many other languages have such rules.

So, unfortunately, the only solution is to actually document in the
templates that MINIMUM=8