Re: please review initial PO templates for cupt 2.5
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Forgot the actual template file. Attached now.
.pot files are hard to review out of context, but here's my attempt:
> #: console/cupt.cpp:109
> msgid "prints the info about binary package(s)"
> msgstr ""
A very minor general problem: "info about binary packages" works,
but if it's singular, "info about binary package" has a missing
article (and likewise for "source packages(s)", "regular
expression(s)" and so on). This probably doesn't matter, though;
sometimes output in slightly compressed English is okay.
> #: console/cupt.cpp:114
> msgid "finds a dependency path between system/package(s) and a package"
> msgstr ""
What does that mean? What, in this context, is a "system"?
> #: console/cupt.cpp:134
> msgid ""
> "cleans unavailable from repositories archives from the binary package cache"
> msgstr ""
That's ungrammatical; I think you mean something like
"cleans packages from binary package cache if not available from repositories"
(that's omitting articles)
> #: console/selectors.cpp:155
> #, c-format
> msgid ""
> "for the package '%s' and the distribution '%s' several versions found: %s; "
> "you should explicitly select by version"
> msgstr ""
Somewhat unnatural (but not ungrammatical) phrase order; it would be
more normal to say something like:
"several versions found for package '%s' and distribution '%s': %s; "
> #: lib/src/file.cpp:64
> msgid "pipe specification mode should be exact 2 characters"
> msgstr ""
Do you mean: should be exactly 2 characters"
> #: lib/src/config.cpp:526
> #, c-format
> msgid "an attempt to get the wrong list option '%s'"
> msgstr ""
"Wrong" sounds as if it can somehow detect that I typed "-b" when I
meant "-v". Is this a list option that doesn't exist? If so,
s/wrong/invalid/. Or is it a list option that won't work under
current circumstances? If so, s/wrong/bad/. (Repeated a couple of
times in other messages)
> msgid "no hash sums defined for the index uri '%s'"
> msgstr ""
This should usually be uppercase "URI", "URIs" here and elsewhere.
> #: lib/src/internal/filesystem.cpp:164
> #, c-format
> msgid "the file '%s' does not exists"
> msgstr ""
Grammar error: s/exists/exist/
> #: lib/src/internal/worker/packages.cpp:1486
> #, c-format
> msgid "internal error: packages stay unconfigured: '%s'"
> msgstr ""
I'm not sure about this; does it mean that they "have been left"
unconfigured?
> #: lib/src/download/methodfactory.cpp:62
> #: lib/src/download/methodfactory.cpp:118
> #, c-format
> msgid "unable to unload the dl handle '%p': %s"
> msgstr ""
What's a "dl handle"? Should it be s/dl/download/?
> #: lib/src/download/manager.cpp:1042
> msgid "download client: the download server socket is timed out"
> msgstr ""
Should that say that the "socket timed out" or that it "has timed
out"?
> #: lib/src/cache/package.cpp:151
> #, c-format
> msgid ""
> "throwing away the duplicate version with different hash sums: package name: "
> "'%s', version: '%s', thrown origin: '%s', origins left: '%s'"
> msgstr ""
I'm not sure what this is saying. Why the definite article in "the
duplicate version"? Should "thrown origin" be "origin of discarded
version"?
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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