Plural form needed for "Quiesce %s sequence took %s%d second%s"

[GunChleoc]

Please fetch the following string with ngettext to prevent grammar errors in translations:

    Quiesce %s sequence took %s%d second%s
    init/quiesce.c:313

The hard coded English plural "s" at the end will cause even more grammar errors!

e.g. for my language

1 second = 1 diog
2 seconds = 2 dhiog
3 seconds = 3 diogan
20 seconds = 20 diog

So, these lines:

    nih_info (_("Quiesce %s sequence took %s%d second%s"),
   quiesce_reason,
   ! (int)diff ? "<" : "",
   (int)diff ? (int)diff : 1,
   diff <= 1 ? "" : "s");

Should look something like this:

    nih_info (ngettext("Quiesce '%s' sequence took %d second", "Quiesce '%s' sequence took %d seconds"), diff),
   quiesce_reason, diff);

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Your analysis is entirely correct. However, as Ubuntu has migrated from upstart to systemd in recent versions, it is unlikely that this bug will see any action.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Thanks for your answer!

I started translating this package because it might be relevant for the phone translations.

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-rtm/15.04/+lang/gd

Does this mean that the package will be removed from Ubuntu Phone as well? If so, I'd prefer concentrating on translating something else - here are only active 2 localizers for my language ;)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 04:55:39PM -0000, GunChleoc wrote:
> Thanks for your answer!

> I started translating this package because it might be relevant for the
> phone translations.

> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-rtm/15.04/+lang/gd

> Does this mean that the package will be removed from Ubuntu Phone as
> well? If so, I'd prefer concentrating on translating something else -
> here are only active 2 localizers for my language ;)

There are no plans to remove it from the phone in the near future. However,
no upstart messages should ever appear in the user-facing UI on the phone,
so this should be a low priority for translation.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Thanks for the info!