On Lu, 23 aug 10, 19:17:08, Christian Perrier wrote: > Dear Debian I18N people, > > The release of Squeeze is in preparation and it's time to work on core packages' translations. > > Thiss mail is a call for translation of messages from > programs provided by the apt package. Dear Christian, Is there a -l10n-english review process for the translatable material in Debian core packages? I'm asking because of things like: #: cmdline/apt-cache.cc:513 cmdline/apt-cache.cc:1194 #, c-format msgid "Package file %s is out of sync." Is this the "Packages" file or just some .deb (I assumed it's the "Packages" file)? #: ftparchive/apt-ftparchive.cc:258 msgid "Source extension list is too long" Is this the "Sources" file? #: ftparchive/apt-ftparchive.cc:375 msgid "Error writing header to contents file" And this is probably the "Contents" file... #: ftparchive/apt-ftparchive.cc:590 msgid "" [snip] "apt-ftparchive generates Package files from a tree of .debs. The\n" This is surely the "Packages" file, as shown by the example in the same string: "appended to the filename fields if present. Example usage from the \n" "Debian archive:\n" " apt-ftparchive packages dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ > \\\n" " dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages\n" All occurrences of special files should probably be quoted, because they are not translatable... #: apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:1280 msgid "" "No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup " "error from a previous failure." s/its/it's/ #: apt-pkg/cacheset.cc:467 #, c-format msgid "Can't select versions from package '%s' as it purely virtual" s/as it purely/as it is purely/ #: cmdline/apt-get.cc:2347 #, c-format msgid "Fetch source %s\n" and #: cmdline/apt-get.cc:2347 #, c-format msgid "Fetch source %s\n" but #: apt-pkg/acquire.cc:878 #, c-format msgid "Retrieving file %li of %li (%s remaining)" and #: apt-pkg/acquire.cc:880 #, c-format msgid "Retrieving file %li of %li" What is the difference? I have also seen a few occurrences of "full-stop without space", but my poor grep-fu can't find them right now. I know I could report these as (minor) bugs against apt, but I think a thorough review would be needed, probably also for the other native Debian packages. Maybe for squeeze+1? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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