add i18n support for the "short read in buffer_copy %s" handling

from dpkg

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
index 3e0964b05..cca590a63 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
@@ -1298,11 +1298,22 @@ void pkgDPkgPM::WriteApportReport(const char *pkgpath, const char *errormsg)
       return;
    }
 
-   // do not report dpkg I/O errors
-   // XXX - this message is localized, but this only matches the English version.  This is better than nothing.
-   if(strstr(errormsg, "short read in buffer_copy (")) {
-      std::clog << _("No apport report written because the error message indicates a dpkg I/O error") << std::endl;
-      return;
+   // do not report dpkg I/O errors, this is a format string, so we compare
+   // the prefix and the suffix of the error with the dpkg error message
+   const char *short_read_error = dgettext("dpkg", "short read in buffer_copy %s");
+   vector<string> list = VectorizeString(short_read_error, '%');
+   if (list.size() > 1) 
+   {
+      // we need to split %s, VectorizeString only allows char so we need
+      // to kill the "s" manually
+      if (list[1].size() > 1) {
+         list[1].erase(0, 1);
+         if(strstr(errormsg, list[0].c_str()) && 
+            strstr(errormsg, list[1].c_str())) {
+            std::clog << _("No apport report written because the error message indicates a dpkg I/O error") << std::endl;
+            return;
+         }
+      }
    }
 
    // get the pkgname and reportfile