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Re: Bug#698869: dpkg-shlibdeps "useless dependency" message is mistranslated in ru



(please keep the -l10n-russian list CC'ed)

Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (wrar@wrar.name):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.16.9
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
> 
> msgid ""
> "package could avoid a useless dependency if %s was not linked against %s (it "
> "uses none of the library's symbols)"
> msgstr[0] ""
> "зависимости от %s можно избежать, если %s не
> будет бесполезно скомпонована с "
> "ней (не используется ни одного её символа)"
> 
> The first and the second %s are swapped in the translation so the meaning is
> corrupted.

Hmmm, that's mostly because the original string assumes that both
parameters will always appear in the same order in translations, which
is apparently not the case.

Do you think there could be a way to arrange the Russian translation
so that parameters appear in the same order than English? Even if the
sentence is a bit more clumsy, it will at least be correct.

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