Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Language of compiler messages etc. in build logs

[Tom Wijsman]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:59:49 +0200
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:

> As of today, the emerge build logs do not use the system locale
> anymore but default to English. The intention behind this is to
> ease the work of bug-wranglers and package maintainers, who may
> have a hard time analyzing localized builds. This change only
> affects the emerge build logs, nothing else.
>
> If you really want to have e.g. localized compiler error messages
> in your builds, set LC_MESSAGES in your /etc/portage/make.conf.

Could you add something like "For more details w.r.t. localization, see
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/HOWTO" so people can look up
here how to set that particular setting and learn about other settings.

> Note that submitting localized build logs to the Gentoo Bugzilla
> is discouraged, and that such bug reports may be closed as INVALID
> by the package maintainer.

Would very much like to see this part dropped or a bit more polite;
even in another language, you often only need the error message and if
you use a translator like Google Translate you often get an error code
that closely resembles the English error.

As far as I am aware bug wranglers usually translate the error; and
only very rarely, it can't be translated or other parts of the build
logs are needed. I haven't heard of much problems with this yet...

If kept, word it something like "When filing bugs; if maintainers are
unable to translate the necessary information from the build log,
please attach an English build log [1] and then reopen the bug.

 [1]: `LC_MESSAGES=C emerge ...`".

Thanks for the change and thank you very much in advance.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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