tags 11217 notabug On 04/11/2012 02:12 AM, [email protected] 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.
