String consisting entirely of variables has no translation hint

[Paul O'Malley]

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/apt/+pots/apt/ga/22/+translate shows that in apt there is a string that consists only of variables, and no hint as to what it is for.

The string should have a translation hint so that translators know whether they need to do anything with it.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

If that's a bug, it's in the application. But usually, as there are more than one variable, I guess they are set to translate because depending on the language the order could change.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Also, such messages should probably contain translator comment (which would also be application bug), so you can ask for it.

[Dereck Wonnacott (dereck)]

This is used to generate a list of packages and should need no translations, but to see it in action run 'apt-cache policy''

%4i :priority
%s :URI

Example output:
 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages

[Dereck Wonnacott (dereck)]

Added a translation hint for the mentioned string

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

(and thanks Dereck for the patch!). I commited a fix to bzr but I decided to remove the _() getext entirely for this string as no translation has used this AFAICS.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.7.19ubuntu1

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apt (0.7.19ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * merge from debian

apt (0.7.19) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Eugene V. Lyubimkin ]
  * doc/sources.list.5.xml:
    - Mentioned allowed characters in file names in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.
      Thanks to Matthias Urlichs. (Closes: #426913)
  * doc/apt-get.8.xml:
    - Explicitly say that 'dist-upgrade' command may remove packages.
    - Included '-v'/'--version' as a command to synopsis.
  * cmdline/apt-cache.cc:
    - Advanced built-in help. Patch by Andre Felipe Machado. (Closes: #286061)
    - Fixed typo 'GraphVis' -> 'GraphViz'. (Closes: #349038)
    - Removed asking to file a release-critical bug against a package if there
      is a request to install only one package and it is not installable.
      (Closes: #419521)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
    - fix SIGHUP handling (closes: #463030)

  [ Christian Perrier ]
  * Translations:
    - French updated
    - Bulgarian updated. Closes: #505476
    - Slovak updated. Closes: #505483
    - Swedish updated. Closes: #505491
    - Japanese updated. Closes: #505495
    - Korean updated. Closes: #505506
    - Catalan updated. Closes: #505513
    - British English updated. Closes: #505539
    - Italian updated. Closes: #505518, #505683
    - Polish updated. Closes: #505569
    - German updated. Closes: #505614
    - Spanish updated. Closes: #505757
    - Romanian updated. Closes: #505762
    - Simplified Chinese updated. Closes: #505727
    - Portuguese updated. Closes: #505902
    - Czech updated. Closes: #505909
    - Norwegian Bokmål updated. Closes: #505934
    - Brazilian Portuguese updated. Closes: #505949
    - Basque updated. Closes: #506085
    - Russian updated. Closes: #506452
    - Marathi updated.
    - Ukrainian updated. Closes: #506545

apt (0.7.18) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Christian Perrier ]
  * Translations:
    - French updated
    - Thai updated. Closes: #505067

  [ Eugene V. Lyubimkin ]
  * doc/examples/configure-index:
    - Removed obsoleted header line. (Closes: #417638)
    - Changed 'linux-kernel' to 'linux-image'.
  * doc/sources.list.5.xml:
    - Fixed typo and grammar in 'sources.list.d' section. Thanks to
      Timothy G Abbott <email address hidden>. (Closes: #478098)
  * doc/apt-get.8.xml:
    - Advanced descriptions for 'remove' and 'purge' options.
      (Closes: #274283)
  * debian/rules:
    - Target 'apt' need to depend on 'build-doc'. Thanks for Peter Green.
      Fixes FTBFS. (Closes: #504181)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * fix depend on libdb4.4 (closes: #501253)

apt (0.7.17) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Eugene V. Lyubimkin ]
  * debian/control:
    - 'Vcs-Bzr' field is official, used it.
    - Bumped 'Standards-Version' to 3.8.0, no changes needed.
    - Actualized 'Uploaders' field.
  * doc/:
    - Substituded 'apt-archive' with 'apt-ftparchive' in docs.
      Patch based on work of Andre Felipe Machado. (Closes: #350865)
    - Mentioned '/<release>' and '=<version>' for 'apt-get install' and
      '=<version>' for 'apt-get source' in apt-get manpage. Patch based on
      work of Andre Felipe Machado. (Closes: #399673)
    - Mentioned more short options in the ...

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

Is this bug fixed ?

I can not see any hint for this string on Karmic: https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/apt/+pots/apt/ga/34/+translate

[Aron Xu (happyaron)]

Adi, there are some templates from apt source package still in import
queue needs review, may be that could solve this problem?

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

The import queue is somehow ok. See Bug #446277

Looking at the apt.pot file from the source package I can see that the message from line 149 „ %4i %s\n” still does not have any comment.

I have attached the apt.pot file generate durring the source package build from apt-0.7.23.1ubuntu1