bug#7243: [patch] making md5sum's warnings clearer

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>> Two years ago I complained about the untranslatability of the warnings
>> that md5sum prints when it has encountered unexpected things:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-09/msg00168.html
>>
>> Jim asked to come up with a change that doesn't remove information.
>> I've finally gotten around to making this -- see the attached patch.
>> In addition to read failures and checksum failures, md5sum now alerts
>> the user to the number of misformatted checksum lines.  It prints this
>> line also when '--warn' is not given, because it is so important.
>
> Thanks for following up.
> I've applied your patch after adjusting the log and a failing test,
> then added two more tests to cover the new types of output lines.
>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] md5sum: print a summary warning for improperly formatted 
> lines
>
> And remove the now-superfluous totals from the other two warnings,
> so the plurals will also work in other languages than English.
>
> * src/md5sum.c (digest_check): Change as above.
> * tests/misc/md5sum (check-quiet2): Adjust accordingly.

FYI, I'm marking this as closed.