bug#80886: Duplicated "Report translation bugs to" string

Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:22:27 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
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On 22/04/2026 18:43, Rafael Fontenelle via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
> The coreutils 9.11 translation file may result in duplicated translated
> text pointing to the language team's mailing list because lib/version-etc.c
> tells the translator to append the language team's mailing list to "Report
> bugs to" and src/system.h has a specific string for the language team's
> mailing list.
> 
> EXAMPLE OF THE PROBLEM:
> 
> See below the trailing lines of 'tr --help' translated in Brazilian
> Portuguese (pt_BR) using my yet-to-be-submitted translation file
> (attached!).
> 
> Notice how the translated text 'Relate erros de tradução para..' is shown
> twice.
> 
> ---
> Relate erros para: [email protected]
> Relate erros de tradução para <
> https://translationproject.org/team/pt_BR.html>
> Página do GNU coreutils: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
> Ajuda para uso de softwares GNU: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
> Relate erros de tradução para <
> https://translationproject.org/team/pt_BR.html>
> Documentação completa em <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tr>
> ou disponível localmente via: info "(coreutils) tr invocation"
> ---

Yes good point.
This seems to have been an issue since:
https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/5e250a3008

This has percolated through translations since then.
For example the Swedish translation has these conflicting instructions:

Skicka synpunkter på översättningen till: [email protected]

Rapportera anmärkningar på översättningen till <[email protected]>

thanks,
Padraig