Gmail notifier crashes when new e-mail is found and the user are supposed to be alerted about it

Thank you for your bug. That's known upstream: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1474066&group_id=125937&atid=704126

Fill me in on this one. I too use Swedish language in the GMail Notifier.

This bug is caused by a line in "/usr/share/apps/gmail-notify/langs.xml " at row 91

<string id="19">%(u)d oläst(a) meddelande%(n)s</string>

If this is changed to for example:

<string id="19">%(u)d oläst(a) mail</string>

Then, the bug is fixed :)

Patch to make it work

The reason I changed to word meddelande(n) to mail is that it does not make the program crash. Mail is bot singular and plural at the same time and therefore there is no need for the "%(n)s" part.

debdiff

I sponsored the fix to intrepid, thanks!

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This bug was fixed in the package gmail-notify - 1.6.1-3ubuntu3

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gmail-notify (1.6.1-3ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=medium

  * Changed the swedish translation in file langs.xml as follows:
    <string id="19">%(u)d oläst(a) meddelande%(n)s</string>
    was removed and instead I added
    <string id="19">%(u)d oläst(a) mail</string>
    The reason I changed the word meddelande(n) to mail is that it does
    not make the program crash. Mail is both singular and plural at the
    same time and therefore there is no need for the "%(n)s" part.
    (LP: #89936)

 -- Askar Andersson <email address hidden> Tue, 13 May 2008 23:25:14 +0200

ACK. Please get it sponsored into hardy-proposed.

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

I can confirm that the bug is now gone with the version in hardy-proposed

HARDY VERIFICATION

Using version 1.6.1-3ubuntu2 from hardy-release:
Program crashes when new mails are detected

Using version 1.6.1-3ubuntu2.1 from hardy-proposed:
Program runs fine, no crashes detected.

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