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>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> Last year we had announced introduction of a new L10N variable |
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> intended to replace LINGUAS as a USE_EXPAND variable [1]. Since then, |
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> many packages have been converted to the new variable. |
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> The next step in the conversion will be removal of LINGUAS from |
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> USE_EXPAND, which means that LINGUAS will become a normal variable, |
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> maintaining the standard gettext behaviour. For a transition time, |
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> all linguas_* flags currently existing in packages' IUSE will be |
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> added to use.desc, but will be removed again when conversion of the |
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> remaining packages is complete. |
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> The plan is to remove LINGUAS from USE_EXPAND in one week from now. |
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> Please speak up if you think this would cause issues for your |
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> packages. A test run using CI [2] was done by mgorny, and it hasn't |
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> shown any problems. |
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This has been pushed now, plus the announced update of l10n.eclass. |
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Expect some USE flag changes on packages. |
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Ulrich |
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> [1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html |
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> [2] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/945e16d4b/output.html |
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