the update-mananager localization is malformed

[Sami POTIRCA]

When language is set to Romanian, the update-manager fails to start with this error:

$ sudo update-manager
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 50, in ?
    parser = OptionParser()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1109, in __init__
    self.set_usage(usage)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1167, in set_usage
    self.usage = _("%prog [options]")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 578, in gettext
    return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 542, in dgettext
    codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 490, in translation
    t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 178, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 303, in _parse
    self.plural = c2py(plural)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 87, in c2py
    raise ValueError, \
ValueError: plural forms expression error, maybe unbalanced parenthesis

[Sami POTIRCA (spotirca)]

Only 2 lines modified in update-manager.po (the patch is self-explainatory).

[Removed by request (removed637280)]

the same when language is set to Polish
$ set | grep LANG
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I fixed this in update-manager locally now too for both ro and pl

[Marius Mihai (psihopatii)]

I've been searching for this solution, but now i don't fiind any update-manager.po file on my system to patch, only update-manager.mo.

[Sami POTIRCA (spotirca)]

On 10/13/06, Marius Mihai <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I've been searching for this solution, but now i don't fiind any update-
> manager.po file on my system to patch, only update-manager.mo.

That's because the .po file is a source file, whilst the .mo file is the
result (binary file) :)
You can download de .po file from launchpad, apply the patch and then use
msgfmt
in order to create de .mo file:

msgfmt update-manager.po -o update-manager.mo

et voila.

Enjoy,
Spami.

[Marius Mihai (psihopatii)]

Thanks :P

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This sounds like another instance of bug #63344.

[Draku (mailselector)]

On Edgy Beta the problem was resolved but with the 1:6.10+20061019 romanian language pack update the problem is still there.

[Dan Damian (dand)]

I can confirm this bug still exists in edgy, with the latest langpack updates. It's most likely a result of bug #2322.

Any chance we can get a fix for this included in the next langpack update?

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

As commented in a duplicate report of this bug, the problem is related with the plural form expression we had for Romanian. It's now fixed and next language pack update for Dapper, Edgy and Feisty should fix this issue.

[Ovidiu Geaboc (ovidiurg)]

Plural form line is still broken in file update-manager.po from latest update available for edgy. You can see update-manager.po in the source package here https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-pack-gnome-ro/1:6.10+20070311

"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-01-23 12:43+0000\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2007-02-15 06:52+0000\n"
"Last-Translator: Daniel Comsa <email address hidden>\n"
"Language-Team: Romanian <email address hidden>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=((n == 1 ? 0: (((n %\n"
"100 > 19) || ((n % 100 == 0) && (n != 0))) ? 2: 1)));\n"
"X-Rosetta-Export-Date: 2007-03-11 08:20:32+0000\n"

[Ovidiu Geaboc (ovidiurg)]

Actually every .po file in language-pack-gnome-ro_6.10+20070311.tar.gz has a malformed plural line.

The correct plural line should be:
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=((n == 1 ? 0: (((n % 100 > 19) || ((n % 100 == 0) && (n != 0))) ? 2: 1)))\n"

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Which is normal because we fixed it this week and the data in that package was generated before the fix was done.

We already fixed the plural line the way you suggest, don't worry.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Please, test new exports using the following apt repository:

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpacks/daily/feisty ./

If you are running dapper or edgy, use this:

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpacks/daily/edgy-updates ./
or
deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpacks/daily/dapper-updates ./

Thank you.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Given that I didn't get any input, I will assume this is fixed.

[Ovidiu Geaboc (ovidiurg)]

Just updated my Edgy with new language packs and so far looks fine. update-manager works in romanian. Thank you.