GNU bug report logs - #33474
Bug in error message formatting

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Mark Roberts <mroberts <at> manumark.de>

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:38:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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bug#33474; Package coreutils. (Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:38:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to Mark Roberts <mroberts <at> manumark.de>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. (Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:38:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Mark Roberts <mroberts <at> manumark.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug in error message formatting
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:56:58 +0100 (CET)
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Dear madams and sirs,

the German translation of 'tail' has a formatting error when reporting 
that the PID to be monitored is invalid. The English version is correct.

English version:

> export LANG=""
> tail -f --pid=aaa /dev/null
tail: invalid PID: 'aaa'

German version:

> export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
> tail -f --pid=aaa /dev/null
tail: %s: ungültige PID: „aaa“

The %s should not be there.


Thank you for looking after great software.
Mark Roberts

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Reply sent to Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>:
You have taken responsibility. (Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:04:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Notification sent to Mark Roberts <mroberts <at> manumark.de>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:04:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #10 received at 33474-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Mark Roberts <mroberts <at> manumark.de>, 33474-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Philipp Thomas <pth <at> suse.de>, translation-team-de <at> lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug#33474: Bug in error message formatting
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:03:32 -0800
On 23/11/18 05:56, Mark Roberts wrote:
> Dear madams and sirs,
> 
> the German translation of 'tail' has a formatting error when reporting 
> that the PID to be monitored is invalid. The English version is correct.
> 
> English version:
> 
>> export LANG=""
>> tail -f --pid=aaa /dev/null
> tail: invalid PID: 'aaa'
> 
> German version:
> 
>> export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
>> tail -f --pid=aaa /dev/null
> tail: %s: ungültige PID: „aaa“
> 
> The %s should not be there.

Indeed thanks.
The source of that file is the translation project,
CCing them and closing here.





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