Martin Steghöfer <mar...@steghoefer.eu> wrote: > Hi Morten, > > thanks for your bug report. Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce your > problem. So we may need further information. Let's start with this: > > Does the file "/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/songwrite.mo" exist in your > system? > > Cheers, > Martin >
Hi Martin, Okay, that was pretty straightforward: The gettext message file was not there because I use the localepurge program. I installed it manually and now the program starts fine. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that usually the English messages are part of the program's source code (and thus compiled directly into it) whereas only the message files with translations into other languages are held in separate gettext message catalogs. It never crossed my mind that this could be the problem. If you want to have it the way it is now, maybe you could a check for the presence of the localepurge program in the debian "preinst" script and issue a warning to the user that the program will not run if the English message catalog is deleted? Thanks, Morten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org