Bug#383045: closed by Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (Re: Bug#383045: (forw) Re: (forw) [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#383045: [INTL:de] login: wrong translation of "Sorry".)

[Christian Perrier]

clone 383045 -1
retitle -1 Please avoid "apologies" when changing the password fails
tags 383045 moreinfo
tags -1 upstream
tags 383045 upstream
forwarded -1 Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl>
thanks

(this is about the "Sorry" outputted by passwd when changing the
password fails...see story in #383045)


Quoting Bernhard Reiter (bernhard at intevation.de):
> reopen 383045
> thanks
> 
> > And, indeed, I have an argument for *not* using "Tut mir Leid": it
> > uses the first person which is something that should be avoided: the
> > computer (and the software) is not a person.
> 
> This is less important than a wrong translation.
> And the upstream author implied that the computer is a person
> in his original string.

Mumble....

So, cloning to ask Tomasz to rephrase (with 80% chances that he will
not).

If Tomasz refuses, I'll close the "Please avoid "apologies" when
changing the password fails" bug report and only French will continue
to be correct in my opinion.

For the German translation, *anyway*, the final word will go to the
translator, ie Holger Wansing who, I suppose, will request for the
advice of the German team and either accept your proposed change or
prefer keeping the "Entschuldigung" or even something else.

If Holger refuses, I'll close the bug and this will be hopefully
definitive. If he accepts, he'll have to propose us a patch and we'll
forward it to upstream.



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