Re: `losetup --remove` is confusing, and misuse silently fails

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Nov 2025 15:42:50 +0100

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.util-linux
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Op 03-11-2025 om 13:49 schreef Karel Zak:
>>    # ./losetup --remove --find --all
>>    losetup: options --remove and --find cannot be combined
>   
> Implemented:
>      https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/3835

Thanks!  However...

	fprintf(stderr, _("%s: options "), program_invocation_short_name);
	ul_print_option(stderr, status[e], opts);
	fputs(_(" and "), stderr);
	ul_print_option(stderr, c, opts);
	fputs(_(" cannot be combined.\n"), stderr);

For translatability, the above should be like:

	fprintf(stderr, _("%s: options %s and %s cannot be combined"), ...);


See for example `info gettext prep prep`, saying that translatable strings
should be entire sentences.


Benno

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