diff -r 1e9c357d3ddf -r d0abd7949ea3 mercurial/scmutil.py
--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py	Tue Jun 05 01:49:52 2018 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py	Tue Jun 05 02:50:25 2018 +0200
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@
             ]
             if not published:
                 return
-            repo.ui.status(_('%d local changesets became public\n')
+            repo.ui.status(_('%d local changesets published\n')
                            % len(published))
 
 def nodesummaries(repo, nodes, maxnumnodes=4):