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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Reimplement dpkg-divert in C



Twas brillig at 02:05:47 17.10.2009 UTC+02 when guillem@debian.org did gyre and gimble:

 >> +                varbufaddstr(ret, "any ");
 >> +
 >> +        varbufaddstr(ret, "diversion of ");
 >> +        varbufaddstr(ret, file);
 >> +
 >> +        if (divertto) {
 >> +                varbufaddstr(ret, " to ");
 >> +                varbufaddstr(ret, divertto);
 >> +        }
 >> +
 >> +        if (package && strcmp(package, ":") != 0) {
 >> +                varbufaddstr(ret, " by ");
 >> +                varbufaddstr(ret, package);
 >> +        }

 GJ> Hmm, this makes translators work pretty hard. Also carried over from
 GJ> the perl code, but as this is getting rewritten let's get it right.

Is --list supposed to be only human-readable? Then we can change output
format a bit to make it more localizable (12 similar strings like "local
diversion of %s to %s by %s", "diversion of %s", "any diversion of %s by
%s"... are localizable, but insane).

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