[Debian-l10n-devel] Bug#1099565: dl10n: Missleading information in l10n-pkg-status page on i18n.debian.org

[Christian Buhtz]

Package: dl10n
Version: 3.00+nmu1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Dear Maintainers,
This is about the translation status package of package, e.g. located at

    https://i18n.debian.org/l10n-pkg-status/b/backintime.html

and to my knowledge generated via the dl10n package.

If there is an error (e.g. po file with unknown langage code; "can't guess
language") that page give misleading information.

1. In the beginning is an example command using "msgfmt". This give the
impression that the error can be reproduced by this command, which is not the
case.

2. The string "The following errors were found in backintim's PO files" is
simply wrong. The ocuring error message (one line later) is generated by
"dl10n-check" script and based on the file name of the po file and not its
content. Maybe rewrite the string like this: "The helper script dl10n-check
reported problems with the following PO files:"

3. The error "gettext: path_to_po_file: can't guess language" is also
misleading. That error is not produced by gettext. That message will produce
noise on the gettext mailing list and bug tracker as it did in my case. Replace
"gettext" string with "dl10n-check".

4. The graphic after "Translation status of package xyz" do use the term
"Language". But it provides 2-letter language codes only not language names

Regards,
Christian Buhtz


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.9
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-31-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dl10n depends on:
ii  gettext                           0.21-12
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl            1.07-5
ii  libmailtools-perl                 2.21-2
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3300-2
ii  libwww-perl                       6.68-1
ii  perl                              5.36.0-7+deb12u1
ii  perl-modules-5.36 [perl-modules]  5.36.0-7+deb12u1

dl10n recommends no packages.

dl10n suggests no packages.

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