[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#812127: login: wrong German error message

Holger Wansing linux at wansing-online.de
Mon Feb 6 21:09:24 UTC 2017


Hi,

Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
> >> > As stated, I (rather firmly) believe
> >> >> Under no cirumstance work is possible without effective root.
> >>
> >> IMO this is the correct interpretation.
> >>
> >> The place where the message is emitted is here:
> >> http://sources.debian.net/src/shadow/1:4.4-3/src/login.c/?hl=567#L567
> >
> > So you should probably change the phrase in English too, to ensure it
> > is understood correctly? (Maybe other translators have misinterpreted it
> > too?)
> 
> The freeze is not a great time for making changes to the original strings. :-)
> Let's defer the resolution of this bug after Stretch is released.
> 
> Login may be provided by util-linux per #833256 and in that case I don't wan't
> to ask l10n teams to update a string in every language before that string goes
> away.

Attached is an updated po file for German.

I have applied the proposal by Helge, and updated the other fuzzies and
untranslated strings as well.


Probably you can still get it into Stretch ...

So long
Holger

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