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

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Balint,
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 09:19:34PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote:
> Control: tags -1 help moreinfo
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:33:21 +0100 "B. Ruva" <ruva at ruggedinbox.com> wrote:
> > Package: login
> > Version: 1:4.2-3.1
> > Severity: l10n
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > the following error message of 'login':
> > 
> > "Cannot possibly work without effective root"
> > 
> > is translated into German as:
> > 
> > "Arbeit ohne effektive root-Rechte eventuell nicht möglich"
> > 
> > This wrong and pretty misleading. It means something like:
> > 
> > "It is perhaps not possible to work without effective root"
> > 
> > I would translate the original error message as:
> > 
> > "Kann unmöglich ohne effektive root-Rechte arbeiten"
> 
> I need help here for sure.
> 
> My wife says the proposed solution does not sound good and I don't speak
> German thus I can't make a decision here. :-)

The incorrect translation is probably caused by a misunderstanding of
the translator (I put him explicitly in CC).

I believe you mean:
Under no cirumstance work is possible without effective root.

> Please someone from the l10n team take a look and review the translations.

Yes.

If my interpretation is correct, the translation suggested by me would
be:

Arbeit ohne effektive root-Rechte keinesfalls möglich.

(The version of the submitter is possible as well, however, it is sub
optimal based on the translation standards established on
debian-l10n-german).

Greetings

          Helge
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