ubuntu-support-status return "TypeError: not enough arguments for format string" due to bad translations

[backit]

in Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS fresh install no upgrade from other ubuntu version. update-manager version 16.04.6.
Running command:
ubuntu-support-status
Return only the error:
"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-support-status", line 151, in <module>
    'time' : time})
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
"

Solution is to add a space in line 151 before " , so the line was:
print(_("You have %(num)s packages (%(percent).1f%%) supported until %(time)s") % {
and become:
print(_("You have %(num)s packages (%(percent).1f%%) supported until %(time)s ") % {

Notice the space after %(time)s.

Best regards.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I wasn't able to recreate this issue e.g. the original code works fine for me.

That being said it certainly appears to be an issue affecting a lot of people:

https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/76dc05ff3a34f1b74353bf3103378e872e58dea2

There about 260 reports from 16.04 users regarding it.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Well some of them in errors are due to bad translations. From it.po:

2468 #: ../ubuntu-support-status:145
2469 msgid "You have %(num)s packages (%(percent).1f%%) supported until %(time)s"
2470 msgstr "Ci sono %(num)s pacchetti (%percent).1f%%) supportati fino a %(time)s"

Notice the missing ( in (%percent).

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

gd.po:msgid "You have %(num)s packages (%(percent).1f%%) supported until %(time)s"
gd.po-msgstr "Tha agad % (num)s pacaidean (%(percent).1f%%) le taic gu %(time)s"

lt.po:msgid "You have %(num)s packages (%(percent).1f%%) supported until %(time)s"
lt.po-msgstr "Jūs turite %(num)s paketų (%(percent).1f %%) palaikomų iki %(time)s"

sl.po:msgid "You have %(num)s packages (%(percent).1f%%) supported until %(time)s"
sl.po-msgstr "Imate %(num) paketov (%(percent).1f%%), ki so podprti do %(time)"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.