[Debian-l10n-devel] Bug#760977: translate-toolkit specifies a wrong value for Turkish plural form

[Mert Dirik]

Package: translate-toolkit
Version: 1.12.0+dfsg1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n upstream patch

Dear maintainers,

I'm pasting the text I've used in upstream bug report [0]:
....
In translate/lang/data.py file, the plural form for Turkish has been defined as
(u'Turkish', 1, '0') but it is simply wrong.
The situation has been explained in [Gettext
documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-
forms.html#Plural-forms) as:

> The same holds for Turkish: “1 apple” is “1 elma”, and “123
apples” is “123 elma”. But when the number is omitted, the distinction
between singular and plural exists: “the apple” is “elma”, and “the
apples” is “elmalar”.

Gettext documentation recommends `nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;` as the correct
form, so the data.py file should be patched like:
```
--- data.py~    2014-08-11 20:22:33.000000000 +0300
+++ data.py     2014-09-09 18:50:44.110584372 +0300
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
     'ti': (u'Tigrinya', 2, '(n > 1)'),
     'th': (u'Thai', 1, '0'),
     'tk': (u'Turkmen', 2, '(n != 1)'),
-    'tr': (u'Turkish', 1, '0'),
+    'tr': (u'Turkish', 2, '(n != 1)'),
     'tt': (u'Tatar', 1, '0'),
     'ug': (u'Uighur; Uyghur', 1, '0'),
     'uk': (u'Ukrainian', 3,
```
....

I don't know when is the next upstream release and if it will be before freeze,
so I wanted to report it also here.

[0] https://github.com/translate/translate/issues/3209



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.15-10.dmz.1-liquorix-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages translate-toolkit depends on:
ii  gettext                                0.19.2-1
ii  libexttextcat-data                     3.4.4-1
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc                        1.2.2+dfsg-3
ii  libpython2.7-stdlib [python-argparse]  2.7.8-6
ii  python                                 2.7.8-1
ii  python-diff-match-patch                20121119-1
ii  python-six                             1.7.3-2
pn  python:any                             <none>

Versions of packages translate-toolkit recommends:
ii  iso-codes           3.56-1
pn  python-babel        <none>
ii  python-bs4          4.3.2-1
ii  python-chardet      2.2.1-2
ii  python-enchant      1.6.6-1
ii  python-iniparse     0.4-2.1
ii  python-levenshtein  0.11.2-1+b2
ii  python-lxml         3.3.5-1+b1
ii  python-simplejson   3.6.3-1
ii  python-utidylib     0.2-9
ii  python-vobject      0.8.1c-4
ii  python-xapian       1.2.18-1

Versions of packages translate-toolkit suggests:
pn  python-subversion  <none>

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