Bug#1106222: [H-S] po://apt/po/fr.po - Re: apt: Wrong french summary line before doing actions

[Alban Browaeys <alban.browaeys@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 21 May 2025 15:02:17 +0200 Vincent Danjean
<vdanjean@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 3.0.1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: l10n
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   When using apt with the command line, in French, the Summary line
before confirmation is wrongly formatted.
> Example:
> With LC_ALL=C:
> Summary:
>   Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 51, Not Upgrading: 0
>   Freed space: 519 MB
> With locale fr_FR.utf8
> Sommaire :
>   Mise à niveau de : 0. Installation de : 0Supprimé : 51. Non mis à
jour : 0
>   Espace libéré : 519 MB
> 
> I would expect something like:
> Résumé :
>   Mise à niveau : 0, Installation : 0, Supprimés : 51, Non mis à jour
: 0
> 
> i.e.:
> - wrong translation (Summary -> Sommaire)
> - strange translation (Upgrading: -> Mise à niveau *de* :, ...)
> - strange formatting (point after numbers instead of comma, no space
before "Supprimé")
> - grammatical error (plural for Supprimé when needed, probably the
same for other. I did not check)
> 
>   Is there a l10n team that handle these kind of bugs? Do you want I
dig into the sources to see if I can produce a patch?


Yes, on the Debian l10n French mailing list, I am CCing them.
Note this list use tags to label thread topics, here [H-S] (hors sujet,
that is not a translation review per se but general discussion) and
apt://po/fr.po to tell which file the translation is about.

Cheers,
Alban


>   Regards,
>     Vincent
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
> 
> 
> -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs present, but not submitted) -
-
> 
> 
> -- (no /etc/apt/sources.list present) --
> 
> 
> -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.sources present, but not
submitted) --
> 
> 
> -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vdanjean.sources present, but not
submitted) --
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 13.0
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'),
(500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1,
'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386, armel
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.12.22-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set