[libvirt] VIR_WARN and VIR_WARN0: many diags were not marked for translation

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue May 18 15:06:52 UTC 2010


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 04:47:50PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I noticed some VIR_WARN* uses with unmarked (for translation)
>> strings.  It turns out there are more than 50:
>>
>>     $ g grep -E 'VIR_WARN0?\(".*"[,)]'|wc -l
>>     128
>>
>> Here's a sample:
>>
>>   src/phyp/phyp_driver.c:        VIR_WARN0("Unable to stat local file.");
>>   src/phyp/phyp_driver.c:        VIR_WARN0("Unable to open local file.");
>>   src/qemu/qemu_conf.c:            VIR_WARN0("Failed to get host CPU");
>
> Historically we have avoided marking our debugging messages
> for translation. These messages generally aren't useful for
> end users, their core purpose is to assist package maintainers
> & developers receiving bug reports in identifying the problem.
> Getting bug reports with these messages in non-english languages
> makes life harder.

Nonetheless, many of my manual changes highlighted
existing (bogus) attempts to translate VIR_WARN0? diagnostics.
Those should be addressed regardless.

Considering the large number of existing VIR_WARN uses with strings
marked for translation, do you want to reconsider?

    $ g grep 'VIR_WARN.*_('|wc -l
    60

or would you prefer to remove the _(...) marks on those 60 uses?




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