[Aptitude-devel] Bug#537858: aptitude: comments on i18n

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 8 February 2014 23:29, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + pending
>
> Thanks for raising this up and the recommendations.
>
> Some of these things are obsolete already, but I addressed most of the
> rest of the things, will be present in the new releases:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=aptitude/aptitude.git;a=commitdiff;h=cea7fd08e76f1be6f6069522e72c2d9fdcb7a825
>
>
> Several comments:
>
> - About "no-summary", "first-package" and so on, both the original
> messages in english and the translated ones are accepted by the
> program, so yes, they should be translated
>
> Maybe it would be better to not allow translation of keywords at all,
> it's not allowed in other places --e.g., the why command itself--, so
> the way in which is done is inconsistent and generates more work for
> both devels and translators without much benefit for the user, I
> think.  Suggestions/comments about this?
>

I agree.  These keywords are part of the programs configuration and
should not be accepted in localized form.  Those which currently
accept localized forms should be deprecated with a suitable warning.

>
> - Then, in the error message, since both the english and the
> translated are accepted, I think that the translators should put both,
> but I don't know what's the common practice.
>

Makes sense.

>
> - I didn't change the ForTranslators thing yet.  Is TRANSLATORS used
> (virtually) everywhere?

I believe so.

> Or different projects use different
> conversions and it's all right?
>

It is acceptable to use different tokens, though there is no reason
for aptitude to remain inconsistent with most other projects here.

Regards