Subject: Re: bug#11217: Bugs in coreutils 8.13-8.16 (German localization)

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:27:34 +0100

tags 11217 notabug

On 04/11/2012 02:12 AM, [email-masked] 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.