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Bug#841969: /usr/share/man/de/man8/apt-get.8.gz: German man page confusion in apt-get source subcommand



Hi,

thanks for the report!

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:48:40PM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> The German man page has a mistake in the section for the source command.
> 
> The English text says:
> 
>            A specific source version can be retrieved by postfixing the
>            source name with an equals and then the version to fetch,
> 
> The German text says:
> 
>            Eine bestimmte Quellversion kann durch Voranstellen eines
>            Gleichheitszeichens vor den Paketnamen und dann der Version zum
>            Herunterladen erhalten werde,
> 
> Now, "Voranstellen" means "prefixing", which is quite the contrary of the
> English text (and the actual syntax) ;).
> 
> Fix:
> 
>            Eine bestimmte Quellversion kann durch Anhängen eines
>            Gleichheitszeichens an den Paketnamen und dann der Version zum
>            Herunterladen erhalten werden,
> 
> Mind that I also added an -n to the last word while at it.

while I happen to be able to read and understand German as it is my
native language, let me follow the usual way of resolving l10n problems
by refering it to the responsible translator (Chris Leick) instead as he
will know best what the "state of the union" is.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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