Hi Thank you for your report.
Indeed the translation is ambiguous.
Since this message relates to a difficulty of translation in French, I
continue this answer in french.
La bonne interprétation est bien celle que vous citez et il est dommage
que le mainteneur du paquet n'ait pas repris la version du GNU,
infiniment plus précise.
Je vais donc corriger la prochaine version de la traduction de tar en
m'inspirant de la version GNU et donc en m'écartant un peu de celle du
responsable du paquet.
-m, --touch
N'extrait pas la date de modification du fichier lors de la
restauration mais fixe cette date à l'instant de la restauration.
I think than this translation is better
Thanks for your help
Valéry Perrin
Olivier Berger a écrit :
> Package: tar
> Version: 1.16-2
> Severity: minor
> Tags: l10n
>
>
> Option -m (--touch) is described as this in manpage in english :
>
> -m, --touch
> don't extract file modified time
>
> It is translated to french as :
>
> -m, --touch
> Ne restaure pas la date de modification du fichier
> restauré.
>
> The addition of the "fichier restauré" instead of "fichier" is confusing
> : is tthe date restored the one of the file, i.e. initial file, or the
> restored file : i.e. regenerated file...
>
> Well, this is not very clear, although the --touch tends to indicate
> that the effect would be the one of a touch command... And it could very
> easily be misinterpreted. I suggest removing the "restauré" addition
> from the translation.
>
> Maybe the formulation of the GNU tar manual would be preferable in the
> end anyway
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Option-Summary.html#Option-Summary)
> :
>
> The -m
> Sets the data modification time of extracted files to the extraction
> time, rather than the data modification time stored in the archive.
> See Data Modification Times.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages tar depends on:
> ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
>
> tar recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
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