[pacman-dev] Improving Pacman's messages (was: Pacman 3.3.1 release?)

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 06:04:31 EDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:12, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>>
>> +1 for Xavier's suggestion, see also:
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-July/009064.html
>>
>> Someone should collect the problematic strings and fix them in a commit.
>> Personally I can recall two of them:
>> 1. "  -u, --sysupgrade     upgrade all outdated packages (-uu enables downgrade)\n"
>> I have no better suggestion.
>> 2. "no database for package: %s\n" (in pacman/sync.c)
>> The second one should be something like "no Server URL for package: %s\n"
>>
>
> What I proposed is much less ambitious : I just want to do a simple
> pass on the new/modified strings before requesting for translations
> (instead of doing it after), for eliminating the obvious mistakes

This would be very good to have!

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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