[Aptitude-devel] Bug#672467: [L10N, DE] aptitude: updated german program translation

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 11 May 2012 19:47, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Even for error messages?
>
> Why not? I've never heard of any orthography exception for error
> messages. (Until now for English. :-)
>

Not sure why but I see many programs do it, and in log files also.

It may have to do with errors being passed around between programs and
combined in different ways – by leaving the sentence open it won't
look strange when inserted in to the middle of another.  *shrug*