Bug#687985: devscripts: [INTL:de] Initial German translation of devscripts

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 22:17 +0200, Chris Leick wrote:
> While translating, I've found some typos in the english template file.
> They are marked in the translation file with »FIXME«.

I think I agree with most of these from a quick run through; I did have
a few follow-up comments on some of them.  The other devscripts
maintainers may have differing opinions. :-)

#. type: Plain text
#: ../scripts/debchange.1:179
# FIXME s/an editor opened/an editor is opened/
# FIXME s/their/in their/
msgid ""
"When B<--release> is used and an editor opened to allow inspection of the "
"changelog, require the user to save the changelog their editor opened.  "
"Otherwise, the original changelog will not be modified. (default)"

I think the first of those actually works better in the original,
although it's not the best sentence ever; we should probably re-word it
to avoid the issue.  "in their editor opened" is definitely not an
English phrase though.

# FIXME s/sanitises/sanitizes/
# FIXME s/sanitised/sanitized/

The former's an alternative spelling, often used in British English (and
Australian English I believe); we may want to standardise on the US
form, but the current use is not an error.

# FIXME: shows »version|distribution|arch«
msgid "show projectb snapshot and reload time (not supported by all
archives)"

I'm not sure what the FIXME here is intended to indicate.  That string
is the description of the -t / --time switch, and the English version
indicates its effect when used with a supporting archive.

# FIXME s/I<rules>/I<rule>/
[...]
"periods.  Note that the I<rules> string may not contain commas; this
should "

My reading of the sentence in context is that it's referring to

       uversionmangle=I<rules>

(which may not contain any commas due to the way it's split from other
options) so "rules" is correct.

# FIXME s/which/will/
msgid ""
"These control scripts which change directory to find a
I<debian/changelog> "

"These" are the variables "DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL" and
"DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX"; they control scripts which do things.
"These variables control scripts which" would probably be clearer.

Regards,

Adam