Use of %s instead of %d led to translator confusion
Bug #60239 reported by
Christophe Fergeau
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
DistUpgrade/
msgid "%s package is going to be removed."
msgid_plural "%s packages are going to be removed."
msgid "%s new package is going to be installed."
msgid_plural "%s new packages are going to be installed."
msgid "%s package is going to be upgraded."
msgid_plural "%s packages are going to be upgraded."
"You have to download a total of %s. "
The %s indicates that a string will be substituted, so the french translators assumed this was going to be substituted with actual package names, while it's actually only a count of packages of each type. Using %d instead of %s would have avoided that mistake.
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| Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| assignee: | nobody → glatzor |
| status: | Unconfirmed → In Progress |
Revision history for this message
| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| assignee: | glatzor → mvo |
| importance: | Untriaged → Medium |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Thanks for this hint. I will pay more attention to this in the future.