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[Mélodie <meets@xxxxxx>]

Hello Gunnar,

I read «anomalités» which imo is still not the right idea behind "software lint" because
"anomalités" translates to "abnormalities".

I prefer "leftovers", or "unwanted leftovers", which is what I have translated it to with
the word in French : «des restes indésirables». Unneeded leftovers might be a good way
also to describe it. What about asking other members of the Debian and Ubuntu communities?

I'll share with a few on IRC.

Best regards,
Joyce


On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:51:32 -0000
Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1852114@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I suppose this is best done via Debian's DDTP2.
>
> https://ddtp2.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=90057&language=fr
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
>    Importance: Undecided => Medium
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> ** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
>      Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu French Translators (ubuntu-l10n-fr)
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Title:
  (French translation) Fslint package description

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New

Bug description:
  Dear developpers and translators,

  I would like to report a bad translation in the description of the
  “fslint” package.

  Here are the outputs of "apt-cache show", in French, then in English:

  *****************
  $ apt-cache show fslint
  Package: fslint
  (…)
  Description-fr: Collection d'utilitaires pour trouver et corriger les erreurs communes
  dans le stockage de fichiers Fslint est une boîte à outils pour nettoyer la charpie du
  système de fichiers. Il comprend une interface graphique GTK+ ainsi qu'une interface
   en ligne de commande et peut être utilisé pour récupérer l'espace disque.
   Il possède une interface pour la désinstallation des paquets, et il peut
  (…)
  Homepage: http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/
  Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
  Origin: Ubuntu

  $ LANG=C apt-cache show fslint
  Package: fslint
  (…)
  Description-en: Utility collection to find and fix common errors in file storage
   FSlint is a toolkit to clean filesystem lint. It includes a GTK+ GUI
   as well as a command line interface and can be used to reclaim disk space.
   It has an interface for uninstalling packages, and it can find things like(…)
  Homepage: http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/
  Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
  Origin: Ubuntu

  $

  *****************

  The part concerned which is incorrectly translated in this sentence, is, in English:
  “FSlint is a toolkit to clean filesystem lint.”

  in French:
  “ Fslint est une boîte à outils pour nettoyer la charpie du
  système de fichiers.”

  This word "charpie" makes no sense in French in this context.

  Here is where "lint" in computing comes from:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software)

  here is what it is referred to when you consider how it has been translated to French:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(material)

  Hence this is the translation I will suggest, based on the explanations of the page
  « https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software) » :

  «Fslint est une boîte à outils pour nettoyer des restes indésirables dans les fichiers du
  système.»

  (litterally, "Fslint is a toolbox to clean unwanted leftovers from the files in the
  system").

  *********

  I think it sounds much better, and if it is ok for you, could you add this to the todo
  for the next package version number?

  Thanks for all your packaging works.

  Best regards,
  Mélodie

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