French "Yes, do as I say!" broken in apt

[Marvin Roger]

Hello,

I tried to install "upstart" with the traditional "sudo apt-get install upstart". But, since it is a dangerous action as it removes the "sysvinit" package, it asks me to type the french (My Raspbian installation is set up in French) "Yes, do as I say!", which is "Oui, faites ce que je vous dis !".

And when I type what is written, it tells me "Abort".

This issue seems corrected in Debian since 2003 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217152).
My Raspbian is up-to-date.

Thanks.

[peter green (plugwash)]

Have you tested this on a debian wheezy system?

[Marvin Roger (nivramdu94)]

Not yet. I am going to try it tomorrow.

[Marvin Roger (nivramdu94)]

I tried and it doesn't work either in Debian Wheezy. After reading http://lists.debian.org/deity/2012/10/msg00042.html, it seems that the space before "!" in the .po is not a simple space but a non-breaking space. That's why it doesn't work when we simply type the space button on the keyboard.
Howerver, it works when we copy-paste.

[peter green (plugwash)]

Strange, that bug is marked as fixed in the version of apt we use. Maybe someone broke it again.

If you can reproduce it on a fully updates wheezy system please file a new bug in debian.

[Ryan Campbell Cunningham (rvskmbrly3)]

I might know about a reason for this bug:

You, Marvin Roger, must have typed a regular space in between "dis" and "!", where "apt" expected a non-breaking space.

Also, this bug was reportedly fixed. You should update your system's version of "apt" to the latest.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

Is this bug still present?

[Marvin Roger (nivramdu94)]

I am unable to test. Feel free to close as nobody else seems to encounter this issue.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

Have you tried reporting it to this Mailing List: https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/ ?

As far as I know, they do (take care of) the translation and it is therefor most likely that they will be able to help you.

[Marvin Roger (nivramdu94)]

I did not, I am using Debian on desktop and I don't have this issue, I only have in Raspbian. This is probably an edge case, I can't believe I am the only French using Raspbian.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

True, but you may be the only French user of Raspbian who has triggered this action and choose to continue (ie not bail out) with it ;-)

I have just compared the relevant file (/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/apt.mo) from amd64 (apt_0.9.7.9+deb7u7_amd64.deb from Debian) with the one from Raspbian (apt_0.9.7.9+rpi1+deb7u7_armhf.deb) and they are binary equal.

And that leads me to the conclusion that the error is NOT in the package.
Maybe your keyboard (setup) is different?

[Marvin Roger (nivramdu94)]

Erratum: I said "I am using Debian on desktop and I don't have this issue, I only have in Raspbian." On 2013-06-24 I said the issue was also present in Debian Wheezy. So forget my last message, I forgot what I said two years ago :)

This issue is two years old, things are probably sorted out now! I will try to get access to a RPi and I will repeat the exact same steps with the same setup (same keyboard), I'll keep you informed.

[Marvin Roger (nivramdu94)]

It's working fine now!

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

Awesome!