gnome-about crashed with KeyError in make_info_label()

[Daniel Gurgel]

bug to be continued in alpha 6 - pt-br

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 8 18:59:25 2008
Dependencies: gnome-desktop-data 1:2.21.92-0ubuntu3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-about
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-about 1:2.21.92-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gnome-about
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-about']
SourcePackage: gnome-desktop
Title: gnome-about crashed with KeyError in make_info_label()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #186118. However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because the problem is in a dependent package.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's a translation issue

[Susana Pereira (susana)]

This bug is not present in portuguese from Portugal. Subscribing Ubuntu Brazilian Translators.

[Og Maciel (ogmaciel)]

Not sure how this is a translation bug... however, the code at line 920 in /usr/bin/gnome-about can be improved.

  File "/usr/bin/gnome-about", line 920, in make_info_label
    label.set_markup (_("<b>%(name)s:</b> %(value)s") % infos_dict)

There's no need to have the variable inside of the gettext function.

Assume param = "foo". If you use _("some %s string" %param) then you will be looking up the interpolated string "some foo string" in the message catalog. The message catalog should have "some %s string" translated. Therefore, % should always be outside of _().

[Og Maciel (ogmaciel)]

Brazilian Portuguese translation:

#: ../gnome-about/gnome-about.in:865
msgid "%(name)s: %(value)s"
msgstr "%(name)s: %(value)s"

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Daniel Cordeiro (dcordeiro)]

Tested in 8.10 and works just fine.
Thanks!

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.