Bug#132332: More i18n: should this bug be closed or marked wontfix?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:14:35PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:54:19PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > tags 132332 l10n
> > thanks
> > 
> > I know Michael reads apt bugs, but anyway CC'ing him as bug submitter.
> > 
> > I have read the bug log about this bug and it looks like the argument
> > for not translating the mentioend strings has been widely explained
> > (even if one does not agree about it...like I do).
> > 
> > Anyway, I think that, as obviously nothing will be done for fixing
> > that bug, it should probably be either closed or marked as
> > "wontfix". Any advice?
> 
> There are definitely some strings which should be marked translatable, but
> not all of those in the patch; I just don't have time to sort them out at
> the moment.

Also, even for strings which should be marked translated, the patch has bugs
like this:

   cout << _("Found ") << List.size() << _(" package indexes and ") <<
    sList.size() <<
      _(" source indexes.") << endl;

so there is work to be done, but the patch is not suitable.

-- 
 - mdz