Bug#233262: base-config: apt-setup template apt-setup/another incomplete in french

[Eugen Meshcheryakov <eugen@univ.kiev.ua>]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle@debian.org):
>
> > Package: base-config
> > Version: 2.12
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: d-i
> >
> > When running in french language, the apt-setup/another template is
> > incomplete. It seems that the MESSAGE variable which is set just before
> > calling db_input is empty while it should contain the output of ngettext.
> >
> > This is not french-specific, but happens also for german and, I guess, for
> > all languages but english (MESSAGE is not empty when using english)
>
>
>
> I strongly suspect this comes from a misunderstanding of plural forms
> handling.
>
> By looking at the ru.po files, I found three forms msgstr[0],
> msgstr[1] and msgstr[2].
>
> Isn't the [0] form for being used when COUNT=0, the [1] when COUNT=1
> and [2] when COUNT>1
>
> This would explain what I found. All languages but lt, ru and uk would
> then need adding a [2] form for plural.
>
> This is what I did for french, though not being really sure... May
> someone confirm? Denis?

  Ukrainian and Russian use one form for singular (also used for 
numbers ending 1) and two forms for plurals. So there is 3 translations 
in po files. As far as I know there are only 2 forms in French. So you 
must use only 2 translations for French.

See also info gettext "Plural forms" ;-)