[Adduser-devel] Bug#489041: Strange behavior in using a spanish environment

[César Gómez Martín]

Hi Joerg,

It shouldn't work that way.

msgid is the original English sentence and msgstr is the translation.

The output message should depende on your local configuration.

Best regards,
César.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Joerg Hoh <joerg at joerghoh.de> wrote:
>
> (debian-l10n-spanish: Can you help out? I don't know gettext good enough to
> debug this problem.)
>
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:13:57PM -0300, Ignacio Mondino wrote:
>> Package: adduser
>> Version: 3.108
>> Severity: minor
>> Tags: l10n
>>
>> Seems like every time y add a user to a group, the program's output is
>> both in english and spanish. For example:
>>
>>       Koala:/home/nacho# adduser nacho vboxusers
>>       Adding user `nacho' to group `vboxusers' ...
>>       Añadiendo al usuario nacho al grupo vboxusers
>>       Hecho.
>
> extract from the translation file es.po:
>
> #: ../adduser:337 ../adduser:582
> #, fuzzy, perl-format
> msgid "Adding user `%s' to group `%s' ...\n"
> msgstr "Añadiendo al usuario %s al grupo %s...\n"
>
>
>
>
>> And when I delete a user from a group, the output is in english but the
>> last word in spanish. For example:
>>
>>       Koala:/home/nacho# deluser nacho vboxusers
>>       Removing user `nacho' from group `vboxusers' ...
>>       Hecho.
>
> #: ../deluser:401
> #, fuzzy, perl-format
> msgid "Removing user `%s' from group `%s' ...\n"
> msgstr "Sacando al usuario %s del grupo %s...\n"
>
> It looks for me that the es.po file contains translated strings. I don't
> know why gettext mixes up translated an un-translated text.
>
>
>> TIA
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>>   APT prefers testing
>>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
>> Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>>
>> Versions of packages adduser depends on:
>> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
>> ii  passwd                        1:4.1.1-1  change and administer password and
>> ii  perl-base                     5.10.0-11  The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
>>
>> adduser recommends no packages.
>>
>> -- debconf information:
>> * adduser/homedir-permission: false
>
>
> Jörg
>
> --
> What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife
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