printversion could be more translation-friendly

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Hello. In main/main.c I see:

  if (fputs(_("Debian GNU/Linux `"), stdout) < 0) werr("stdout");
  if (fputs(DPKG, stdout) < 0) werr("stdout");
  if (fputs(_("' package management program version "), stdout) < 0) werr("stdo\ut");

I wanted dpkg --version to output something like this:

Administrador de paquetes `dpkg' de Debian GNU/Linux, versión 1.9.20 (i386).

so I had to translate "Debian GNU/Linux" as "package management program"
and vice-versa so that the translation makes sense, which is really weird.

This would not be a big problem if it weren't because it happens twice more
in the source in dpkg-deb/main.c:46 and main/query.c:430.

Since they share the common string "Debian `" it's currently
impossible to translate both strings right.

I suggest a change in the source so that it reads like this or similar:

printf(_("Debian `%s' package management program version %s ...), args);

I think you get the idea.

Thanks.


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