Bug#630647: Finnish translation uses "%1$d" syntax not supported by grub_printf

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-14
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
Tags: l10n

-- Steps to reproduce:
0. Have a partition containing an ext2 or ext3 file system that
   has been written to.  (In case it matters, my disk has a GUID
   partition table.)
1. Get to the GRUB command prompt, in grub-pc or grub-emu.
2. Execute "set lang=fi".
3. Type "ls (hd0," or similar, substituting the name of the disk.
   Do not press Enter.
4. Press the Tab key.  

-- Actual results:
GRUB displays something like:

grub> ls (hd0,
Mahdollisia osioita ovat:

        Osio hd0,gpt1: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?
        Osio hd0,gpt2: Tiedostoj?rjestelm?tyyppi ext2 - Nimi? ?boot? -
Viimeinen muokkausaika $d.$d.$d $d:$d:$d $s, UUID
2097e2f5-7cc4-4fc0-84bc-7780ae74edd5
        Osio hd0,gpt3: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?
        Osio hd0,gpt4: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?
        Osio hd0,gpt5: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?

Note the "$d.$d.$d $d:$d:$d $s" part.  (The question marks appear
in grub-emu; I don't remember whether they do in grub-pc too.)

-- Expected results:
GRUB should have instead displayed a date and a time.
Like this, for example:

grub> ls (hd0,
Mahdollisia osioita ovat:

        Osio hd0,gpt1: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?
        Osio hd0,gpt2: Tiedostoj?rjestelm?tyyppi ext2 - Nimi? ?boot? -
Viimeinen muokkausaika 15.6.2011 07:17:24 Wednesday, UUID
2097e2f5-7cc4-4fc0-84bc-7780ae74edd5
        Osio hd0,gpt3: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?
        Osio hd0,gpt4: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?
        Osio hd0,gpt5: Tuntematon tiedostoj?rjestelm?

(Localizing "Wednesday" is not in the scope of this bug report.)

-- Cause:
po/fi.po in the source tree does:

#: normal/misc.c:88
#, c-format
msgid "- Last modification time %d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d %s"
msgstr "- Viimeinen muokkausaika %3$d.%2$d.%1$d %4$d:%5$d:%6$d %7$s"

However, grub_vsnprintf_real in kern/misc.c does not support
numbered argument conversion specifications like "%1$d".

Only this one translation in po/fi.po has the bug.  There are
dollar signs in po/zh_CN.po too but they have been commented out.

-- Change request:
Please either change the C code to support numbered arguments,
or change the translation not to use them.
The easiest fix would be to make the Finnish msgstr use the same
"%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d %s" format as the msgid.
Although the year-month-day format is not widely used in Finland,
it would surely be better than not seeing the date at all.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              6.0squeeze1      Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.8.10        Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.18.1.1-3       GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-6   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1      2:1.02.48-5      The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xorriso                       <none>     (no description available)

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