Re: String freeze break request for evolution-data-server (3.12)

[Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:23 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org> wrote:
> I'd like to backport some fixes from Evolution master to 3.12 which fix
> GSSAPI HTTP authentication and error reporting¹.
>
> Previously, if we were unable to translate an error number into a string
> we would end up with an untranslated message of the form 'Unknown error
> code' or 'Unknown code %d' from libcom_err.
>
> Now the code is fixed, we end up handling the lookup failure in EDS, and
> report it slightly more coherently as
>          _("(Unknown GSSAPI mechanism code: %x)")
>
> So we have a new untranslated string... in place of a string which was
> previously not only untranslated but untranslatable. In a case that
> should hopefully never happen now that we're actually looking up the
> error codes the right way, and where the message text wasn't giving the
> user much information anyway (only the number might *possibly* be
> helpful.
>
> On the whole, I'm not going to lose sleep over it being untranslated :)

1/2 from i18n.

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Alexandre Franke