Re: dpkg - unclear messages
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Michael Piefel wrote:
> Hello Adam,
>
> The meaning of some of dpkg's messages is unclear to me. For instance:
>
> "unable to create updated files nlist file for package %s"
>
> As I'm trying to translate that into German, I am experiencing
> difficulties with the word "nlist". It's also not clear to me how this
> is grouped: Is is "(updated files) (nlist file)" or rather "updated
> (files nlist file)"? It might not matter much in English, but in German
> I can think of a number of different translations...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/pkg.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/pkg.nlist
nlist is the extension for a filename. Don't translate it.
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