Hi! On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 18:49:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-10-22 08:46 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 08:23:27, Oliver Grimm wrote: > >> Package: update-alternatives > >> Version: dpkg > >> Severity: minor > >> Tags: l10n
> >> applying update-alternatives to x-session-manager gives the following > >> message > >> (in German): > >> > >> --- > >> update-alternatives: /usr/bin/xfce4-session wird verwendet, um /usr/bin/x > >> -session-manager (x-session-manager) im manueller Modus bereitzustellen > >> --- > >> > >> where correct grammar should say "...im manuellen Modus...". > > > > You might want to CC the German translators list on such issues, doing > > so with this message. > > Fixing this bug requires changes in update-alternatives, since the same > very short string ("manual mode") is used in different places, and at > least two of them (update-alternatives --display|--config <package>) use > nominative case. Would the attached patch, fix it? Thanks, Guillem
commit 13cb8cbe1cbc7a24d9352127ceaa72fb9aa802e3 Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> Date: Wed Oct 22 19:01:51 2014 +0200 u-a: Inline alternative status description into translatable string This makes it possible to correctly translate the string. diff --git a/utils/update-alternatives.c b/utils/update-alternatives.c index 62675e8..d5f9af5 100644 --- a/utils/update-alternatives.c +++ b/utils/update-alternatives.c @@ -2331,9 +2331,12 @@ alternative_update(struct alternative *a, (!current_choice || strcmp(new_choice, current_choice) != 0)) { log_msg("link group %s updated to point to %s", a->master_name, new_choice); - info(_("using %s to provide %s (%s) in %s"), new_choice, - a->master_link, a->master_name, - alternative_status_describe(a->status)); + if (a->status == ALT_ST_AUTO) + info(_("using %s to provide %s (%s) in auto mode"), + new_choice, a->master_link, a->master_name); + else + info(_("using %s to provide %s (%s) in manual mode"), + new_choice, a->master_link, a->master_name); debug("prepare_install(%s)", new_choice); alternative_prepare_install(a, new_choice); } else if ((reason = alternative_needs_update(a))) {