german manpage dpkg: too much translation (packet state names)

Bug #368783 reported by Pascal R.
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Ubuntu Translations
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Ubuntu German Translators
dpkg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: dpkg

In the manpage dpkg(1) on german Kubuntu 9.04, there is a section
"INFORMATIONEN ÜBER PAKETE"
english: Informations about packets.
There are the possible states of packets described. The state names are (nearly all) translated to german.
While it is nice to have a german translation of the description of these state names, I think it makes no sense to translate the names themselve, because these are keywords used in e.g. the file /var/lib/dpkg/status.
There are for example the state names:
 * nicht-installiert
  I think this should be not-installed
 * Config-Dateien
  maybe config-files
 * halb-installiert
  partly-installed or half-installed ?
and so on...

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Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog) wrote :

This is still true on dpkg's git master branch. I informed the current German translator.

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Dennis Baudys (thecondordb) wrote :

Hi!
I'm assigning ubuntu-translations to keep track of that.

David Planella (dpm)
Changed in ubuntu-translations:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu German Translators (ubuntu-l10n-de)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.16.3ubuntu1

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dpkg (1.16.3ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Merge with 1.16.3 from unstable:
    - Change the multiarch downgrade version checks in prerm/postrm
      from 1.16.2 to 1.16.0~ to reflect when multiarch landed in Ubuntu.
    - Migrate dpkg multiarch conffile (and other multi-arch-related
      conf settings) to the new DB with dpkg --add-architecture, but
      keep a copy of the old conffile if it was modified.
    - Out of paranoia, keep an option handler for foreign-architecture
      that informs people that they need to scrub their config files
      and upgrade, on the off chance that the above migration fails
      for some reason (this mitigates the chances of leaving users with
      a dpkg that fails to run due to a broken config).
  * Changes remaining from previous Ubuntu versions:
    - Add DPKG_UNTRANSLATED_MESSAGES environment check so that higher-level
      tools can get untranslated dpkg terminal log messages while at the
      same time having translated debconf prompts. This is useful for tools
      that hide the dpkg terminal by default and use apport for bug
      reporting with the untranslated error message.
    - Build-depend on gettext:any for cross-building support.
    - Apply patch from Steve McIntyre to special-case armhf/armel ELF
      objects in Shlibs/Objdump.pm, so we don't get incorrect deps.

dpkg (1.16.3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Guillem Jover ]
  * Do not look for newline beyond the read buffer on dpkg-deb extract.
  * Check update-alternative name and link arguments for all commands.
    Closes: #665050
  * Check all dpkg-divert filename arguments to be absolute and to not
    contain newlines. Closes: #21722
  * Print errors while reading the file list files on a new line instead
    of just after the progress percentage. Closes: #552517
  * Document in dpkg-source(1) that patches for source format “3.0 (quilt)”
    are expected to apply without any fuzz. Closes: #666752
    Based on a patch by Luca Capello <email address hidden>.
  * Remove redundant -Wformat-security from default dpkg-buildflags, which
    is already implied by -Werror=format-security. Closes: #664964
    Suggested by Peter Eisentraut <email address hidden>.
  * Document in dpkg-query(1) that commands producing multiple paragraphs
    will preserve the order of the packages specified on the argument list.
  * Change start-stop-daemon --exec on GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
    and Solaris to check for executables matching device and inode numbers
    instead of filenames.
  * Change start-stop-daemon --name on GNU/Hurd to check the process' argv[1]
    in addition to argv[0], to handle both binaries and interpreted scripts.
    Reported by Mats Erik Andersson <email address hidden>.
  * Handle deb format versions as major.minor integers instead of strings or
    floats, the latter being susceptible to parsing errors depending on the
    current locale (although this was only affecting the old deb format).
  * Ignore the minor format version number for deb-split format, unifying
    the behaviour with the deb format.
  * Add support for an abitable containin...

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in ubuntu-translations:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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