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

[James McCoy]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:03:44PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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«.

Thanks for the translation!

> 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. :-)

I agree with most of your comments.

> #. 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.

How about this?

  When --release is used, an editor is opened to allow inspection of the
  changelog.  Require the user to save the file to accept the modified
  changelog, otherwise the original will be kept. (default)

> # 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.

Makes sense.  I'll change that.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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