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Bugs in coreutils 8.13-8.16 (German localization)

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From: cbrill <at> arcor.de
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Bugs in coreutils 8.13-8.16 (German localization)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:12:32 +0200 (CEST)

Package: coreutils
Version:  8.13 - 8.16

Faults:
(only applicable to german localization):
When trying to re-create an already created symbolic link, ln's error message contains three faults,
one grammatical, one [important] logical one orthographical.

Reproduction:

touch ./foo
ln -s ./foo ./bar
>>>then again:
ln -s ./foo ./bar
ln: Symbolischen Verknüpfung „./bar“ konnte angelgt werden: Die Datei existiert bereits.

Corrected error message reads like this:
ln: Symbolische Verknüpfung „./bar“ konnte nicht angelegt werden: Die Datei existiert bereits.

Corrections:
- 1) Symbolische Verknüpfung [...] -> minor important grammatical mistake.
- 2) [...] konnte nicht angelgt werden: [...] -> this one is important, the negotiation is missing.
- 3) [...] angelegt werden: [...] -> minor important ortographical mistake (typo).

whereas original english errStr is correct:
LC_ALL=C ln -s ./foo ./bar
ln: failed to create symbolic link `bar': File exists

File /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo  (binary) - (tested using Debian coreutils 8.13-3.1)
resp. ./po/de.po & ./po/de.gmo source (8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16) belong to 'coreutils', not 'locales', so this is a coreutils problem.

I've reported the problem at bugs.debian.org, too - since it may be in the interest of Debian to correct this in distribution packages before 8.17 or so migrates to sid/testing.

Yfyi: German localization files contain several other typos/mistakes.

Best regards,
C. Brill  Frankfurt /Germany

Message #10 received at 11217-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: cbrill <at> arcor.de
Cc: 11217-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11217: Bugs in coreutils 8.13-8.16 (German localization)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:27:34 +0100

tags 11217 notabug

On 04/11/2012 02:12 AM, cbrill <at> arcor.de wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version:  8.13 - 8.16
> 
> Faults:
> (only applicable to german localization):
> When trying to re-create an already created symbolic link, ln's error message contains three faults,
> one grammatical, one [important] logical one orthographical.
> 
> Reproduction:
> 
> touch ./foo
> ln -s ./foo ./bar
>>>> then again:
> ln -s ./foo ./bar
> ln: Symbolischen Verknüpfung „./bar“ konnte angelgt werden: Die Datei existiert bereits.
> 
> Corrected error message reads like this:
> ln: Symbolische Verknüpfung „./bar“ konnte nicht angelegt werden: Die Datei existiert bereits.
> 
> Corrections:
> - 1) Symbolische Verknüpfung [...] -> minor important grammatical mistake.
> - 2) [...] konnte nicht angelgt werden: [...] -> this one is important, the negotiation is missing.
> - 3) [...] angelegt werden: [...] -> minor important ortographical mistake (typo).
> 
> whereas original english errStr is correct:
> LC_ALL=C ln -s ./foo ./bar
> ln: failed to create symbolic link `bar': File exists
> 
> File /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo  (binary) - (tested using Debian coreutils 8.13-3.1)
> resp. ./po/de.po & ./po/de.gmo source (8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16) belong to 'coreutils', not 'locales', so this is a coreutils problem.
> 
> I've reported the problem at bugs.debian.org, too - since it may be in the interest of Debian to correct this in distribution packages before 8.17 or so migrates to sid/testing.
> 
> Yfyi: German localization files contain several other typos/mistakes.
> 
> Best regards,
> C. Brill  Frankfurt /Germany

Thanks.
You may want to join http://translationproject.org/team/de.html
and fix the translations directly. We get our translations from there.

cheers,
Pádraig.

Message #13 received at 11217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Thomas <pth <at> suse.de>
To: cbrill <at> arcor.de
Cc: 11217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11217: Bugs in coreutils 8.13-8.16 (German localization)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:52:47 +0200

* cbrill <at> arcor.de (cbrill <at> arcor.de) [20120411 10:13]:

> ln: Symbolischen Verknüpfung „./bar“ konnte angelgt werden: Die Datei existiert bereits.
> 
> Corrected error message reads like this:
> ln: Symbolische Verknüpfung „./bar“ konnte nicht angelegt werden: Die Datei existiert bereits.

When you do 'ln --help' the german message will tell you in the second to
last line:

Melden Sie Übersetzungsfehler für ln an <translation-team-de <at> lists.sourceforge.net>

meaning

Report ln translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

Why didn't you do so?  Please send your bug report to the stated mailing list
address. As I am the current translator for german I'll fix this when time
permits, but please do report the bug to help me keep track.

Philipp

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