Package: bash
Version: 3.0-13
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n

The german translation of the message "Alarm clock" if a SIGALARM is not
trapped reads "Der Wecker klingelt" is misleading. Actually the english
message is not helpful either. A better translation would be
"Alarmsignal" or the like.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export LANG=C
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -we 'alarm 1; sleep 2'
Alarm clock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export LANG=german
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -we 'alarm 1; sleep 2'
Der Wecker klingelt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                  3.1.3        Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  passwd                      1:4.0.3-30.8 Change and administer password and

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