Re: printversion could be more translation-friendly

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Santiago Vila wrote:
> >   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");
>
> Actually looking at this a bit more we can't change it, the string
> has to be split like that so we can put the DPKG define in there
> while still allowing it to be translated.

I don't understand. Do you mean you can't use a %s inside a printf to show
the value of DPKG? If so, why not? If not, what do you mean?

Please note that by doing this in dpkg-deb/main.c:46 and main/query.c:430
you are in fact disallowing it to be translated.


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