[pacman-dev] [translation] Problems with DE-version

[Xavier]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Matthias Gorissen <matthias at archlinux.de> wrote:
> So version 3.2.0 went to [core], and upon the next -Syu, pacman greeted me
> with the following message:
>
> :: pacman hat eine neuere Version von sich selbst gefunden.
> :: Möchtest du die momentan Handlung abbrechen
> :: und die neue pacman Version installieren? [Y/n]y
>
> WTF??? This is anything but German! Style and taste aside, there are at least
> three serious errors:
>
> 1. Pacman uses a colloquial form to address its user - this is logically
> inconsistent. All the rest of the De-translations use a more formal one (just
> to avoid ambivalent meanings - it is not about formality/politeness).
> 2. "momentan" should be "momentane" - it sounds like an "ery annoying error"
> in English.
> 3. [Y/n] should be [J/n]. If you type "y", pacman gets updated with all the
> other packages - not in before.
>
> Of course, I don't want to blame anyone in particular here. There is no-one to
> blame but me - I should have held these files under much closer surveillance.
> I was quite sure, however, that I had purged these lines, and that the
> changes were merged. So this an "ery annyoing error" indeed.
>
> For the sake of interest, this error was originally introduced here:
> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=2b0c89b06a5cf68f03cb187849ddf8a7f81859ba
>
> I didn't find any indication that this went over the ML (where I would have
> seen/checked it). Maybe a private mail to Dan? - I dunno, but it should not
> have been accepted this way.
>

Hmm, this is a very minor issue, and you make it look like a huge one.
IIRC, Dan indeed got this german update privately, for the 3.1.2
release, because no one else provided one.
There were maybe a few mistakes, but it was still much better than no
update at all.

> I thought I had cleaned up the entire issue here (but maybe I was wrong):
> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ebad47ae7dff0f006c885c303563cb8550fb658;hp=ad697d2fd5af10439266b3350b3de3c9400913f5
> This one was merged, so I don't see why the the older version keeps popping
> up.
>
> I have provided another patch here:
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-July/012427.html
> This one may not have been merged, but hey - there are at least 20 people
> subscribed to this who can checkout git-repos retrospectively 10 times better
> than I can, aren't they?
>
> So I'll write a patch for 3.2.1 (maybe this evening, if I stay sober enough).
> But despite my own short-comings, I wonder about organization. Maybe we could
> figure out a way to avoid such mistakes in the future.
>

There is a very important point you are missing here. For updating
from pacman 3.1.4 to 3.2.0, you are actually using pacman 3.1.4.
Everything is fine in 3.2.0, the patch merged was the last one you
provided, with everything fixed.
You will see the effect when upgrading to 3.2.1

But I still don't understand the dramatic tone.