Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages
Denis Barbier writes ("Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages"):
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:36:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Adam Heath writes:
> > > ohshite should really be for internal errors only. Things that
> > > "Should Not Happen(tm)".
> >
> > This is totally 100% INcorrect. ohshite is used nearly everywhere for
> > system call failures, eg `disk full'.
>
> But ohshite already prints strerror(errno), so it could eg print
...
> instead of
>
> dpkg: failed to write status record about `tcl8.4' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
> dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or repertory
>
> in order to remove many cryptic error messages from PO files.
Err, are you complaining that the string
dpkg: failed to write status record about `%.250s' to `%.250s'
is too hard to translate ?
You seem to be suggesting removing the detail from dpkg's error
handling - ie, reporting less information to make the translation
easier.
I don't think that's a good idea.
Ian.
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