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Re: Bug#264716: aptitude: install ~p... won't work with some languages



On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:49:25AM -0400, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say:
>   With this patch, aptitude will accept either the English name for the
> priority or the localized name.  It won't accept a regular expression
> any more, so the documentation needs to be updated (included in the
> patch for English).

  Note that this will cause a problem if one of the strings in English
is translated to another string in English; for instance, if there's a
language where "extra" means the equivalent of the English "optional".
I don't think that's something to stay up worrying about, just being
thorough :)

  Daniel

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