Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-1 Severity: minor Tags: l10n (This is really a separate issue from my other report. Honest:)
In a Finnish locale, "man 2 foo" says Sovellukselle foo ei ole opastesivua in section 2 I'm sure you'll be able to spot the strangeness without knowing Finnish: a part of that message is untranslated. While an untranslated message is undoubtedly the translator's fault, in this case I also see a programmer error. The simple rule for a programmer is, the smallest unit of text you should ever mark for translation is a complete sentence (with some exceptions, which do not apply here). In this case, which is easily verified by looking at ltrace output, you construct that message by calling printf twice: fprintf(0xb7fd0f60, "Sovellukselle %s ei ole opastesi"..., "foo") = 36 dcgettext(0, 0x805a2f0, 5, 0xb7eb1f38, 0xb7ea9438) = 0x805a2f0 fprintf(0xb7fd0f60, " in section %s\n", "2") = 14 You really shouldn't do that. Sentence fragments are in general impossible to translate correctly: the translator might need to put the words that say "in section %s" in the middle of the message, instead of in the end, like in the English. The words thta say "in section %s" may also depend on the sentential context, which the translator cannot see because you have chopped the sentence into parts. While some languages may be able to cope with this in some cases, it isn't always possible, and it often creates bad language, which gives a bad name to localized free software. Please fix this! -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.1.2 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.52 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.10 Package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-8 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime man-db recommends no packages. -- debconf information: man-db/build-database: true man-db/rebuild-database: true * man-db/install-setuid: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
