Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems

[HggdH]

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 19:51 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Ondřej Vašík <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I googled a bit about that "french" issue, it was already reported to
> > translation team. Answer was that it could be caused by translation like
> > "report all bugs to address@hidden" instead of "report bugs to
> > address@hidden" . I don't think so, I guess it is too similar to
> > cause such confusion, I would prefer formulation like "report bugs
> > related to <programname> utility to address@hidden" anyway ...
> > will check if it is acceptable by upstream...
> 
> Thanks for pursuing that.
> I like the idea and will probably address it with a change like this:
> 
> diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h
> index e88b1bb..8577d44 100644
> --- a/src/system.h
> +++ b/src/system.h
> @@ -614,11 +614,12 @@ ptr_align (void const *ptr, size_t alignment)
>  static inline void
>  emit_bug_reporting_address (void)
>  {
> -  /* TRANSLATORS: The placeholder indicates the bug-reporting address
> -     for this package.  Please add _another line_ saying
> -     "Report translation bugs to <...>\n" with the address for translation
> +  /* TRANSLATORS: The second placeholder indicates the bug-reporting
> +     address for this package.  Please add _another line_ saying
> +     "Report %s translation bugs to <...>\n" with the address for translation
>       bugs (typically your translation team's web or email address).  */
> -  printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
> +  printf (_("\nReport %s bugs to <%s>.\n"), last_component (program_name),
> +       PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
>  }
> 
>  #include "inttostr.h"

A run with 'LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 chown --help' produced the 'report a bug'
as:

Signaler un bug à <address@hidden>.

This is, literally, "report a bug to ...". 

Perhaps it might be another option to ask distributions to replace the
string with a "report a bug to <distribution BTS>". 

Regards,

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