Re: Bug#487537: [INTL:tr] Turkish translation update [tasksel]
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:03:16AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org):
> > > "This task sets up your system to be a file server, supporting both NetBIOS "
> > > "and NFS."
> > This caught my attention as it flashed by in my mailer. :) I think this
> > description needs to be revised; "NetBIOS" is not and never has been the
> > name of a file sharing protocol, the file sharing protocol is called either
> > "SMB" or "CIFS" (depending on whether you're old enough to remember that
> > Microsoft didn't invent it ;).
> > Can we get a string change with unfuzzying for this, or otherwise get this
> > changed for lenny, or will this have to wait until after the lenny release
> > at this point?
> I think we can s/NetBIOS/CIFS on PO files without problem. I don't
> really see any reason for translators to have translated that one.
As a precaution, I would suggest s/NetBIOS\b/CIFS/, and then checking for
any remaining instances of 'NetBIOS', just to guard against the possibility
that someone thought the name should be declined in an inflected language.
Cheers,
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