On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:41:57 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > (please keep the -l10n-russian list CC'ed) > > Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin ([email protected]): > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.16.9 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: l10n > > > > msgid "" > > "package could avoid a useless dependency if %s was not linked against %s > > (it " > > "uses none of the library's symbols)" > > msgstr[0] "" > > "зависимости от %s можно избежать, если %s не > > будет бесполезно скомпонована с " > > "ней (не используется ни одного её символа)" > > > > The first and the second %s are swapped in the translation so the meaning is > > corrupted. > > Hmmm, that's mostly because the original string assumes that both > parameters will always appear in the same order in translations, which > is apparently not the case. > > Do you think there could be a way to arrange the Russian translation > so that parameters appear in the same order than English? Even if the > sentence is a bit more clumsy, it will at least be correct.
That's what the format parameter index are for, here it would be a matter of using "... %2$s ... %1$s ...", I can commit that. Or am I missunderstanding the issue here? Thanks, Guillem
