Kerry, the next one to check, please.

Karl, we have done extensive searching in our files for the string "ancien 
paquetage" and cannot find this string in our files.

sorry, my fault, I didn't copy the subject in the message. the error is "ancine"
in place of "ancien", and it's there:

eter-suse:/usr/share/YaST2 # grep -r ancine *
Fichier binaire locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/update.mo concorde

Found it:

fr/po/update.fr.po-msgid "Delete Old Packages"
fr/po/update.fr.po:msgstr "Effacer les ancines paquetages"

Since files are already delivered I can offer to fix it directly.  What shall I
write?

I actually wanted to ask maryh@vistatec.ie...

"Effacer les anciens paquetages"

I apply this fix:

# TLABEL autoinst_2002_08_07_0216__78
#. Proposal for backup during update
#: src/clients/update_proposal.ycp:252
msgid "Delete Old Packages"
msgstr "Effacer les anciens paquetages"

Fixed in French build Beta 4 050901.

again in RC1 on the update summary page
"effacer les ancine paquetages"

I forgot to say that it's an update from a beta3 (not completely updated to
beta4) and RC1. It may be than the update.mo file was _not_ updated an is still
the old buggy one.

peter-suse:/usr/share/YaST2/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES # grep -r ancine *
Fichier binaire update.mo concorde
peter-suse:/usr/share/YaST2/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES # ls -l up*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 13584 2005-09-03 14:38 update.mo

Thanks for checking.  The fix got lost in the meantime:

svn diff -r3940:3992 update.fr.po
...
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@
 #. Proposal for backup during update
 #: src/clients/update_proposal.ycp:252
 msgid "Delete Old Packages"
-msgstr "Effacer les anciens paquetages"
+msgstr "Effacer les ancines paquetages"
 
I apply it again, hopefully for RC2.

if I understant well the - and the +, this should be in the other sense, must
delete "ancines" and add "anciens" ?

Yes, but I documented the reveisons when the already applied fix got lost again
;)  It was fixed in r3940 and we break with r3992 again.