Re: Bug#596333: dpkg-genchanges: wrong french translation : impossible de lire le fichier des fichiers
Le vendredi 10 septembre 2010 à 18:06 +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
> Quoting Olivier Berger (olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu):
> > Package: dpkg-dev
> > Version: 1.15.8.4
> > Severity: minor
> > Tags: l10n
> >
> >
> > Building on a broken Debian source package dir with french locale gives :
> > dpkg-genchanges: erreur: impossible de lire le fichier des fichiers.: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> > whereas LANG=C tells :
> > dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory
> >
> > I guess the proper french translation should be :
> > impossible de lire le fichier listant les fichiers: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
>
> "lister" verb not being correct French, we'll need to
> find something else..:-)
>
>
> And inded, "fichier des fichiers" is not that bad, after
> all.... Otherwise, we'll need to use "fichier de liste des fichiers". Bleh.
>
>
I think we should prefer understandable things (even not real proper
french) than things that render the message completely opaque.
File of files... uh ? files list file, then, at least I understand that
one file lists other files. Still dunno which but, at least I may be
able to guess one step further...
Just my 2 cents.
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Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>
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Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)
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