bug-coreutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list fo


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:51:07 +0100

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"




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]