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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: dilfridge@g.o
Subject: Re: Build log locales (was: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-08-13)
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:52:27
Message-Id: 20130806175238.307dd06d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Build log locales (was: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-08-13) by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 Dnia 2013-08-06, o godz. 16:13:03
2 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > Basically:
5 > 1) do we want to require english build logs in bugzilla (ie. non-english logs
6 > make a bug invalid)?
7
8 We prefer english build logs. I won't myself reject bug outright just
9 because of non-english messages.
10
11 > 2) do we want to make the build logs english by default (i.e. even if a locale
12 > is set globally, the user would have to install a second override in e.g.
13 > make.conf to obtain localized build logs)?
14
15 Yes.
16
17 > 3) if yes to 2), which locale?
18
19 C.utf8
20
21 > 3) don't care as long as it is english, and I consider any build system that
22 > fails depending on locale as br0ken and in need of fixing.
23
24 So far the major problem was that we can't assume any specific locale
25 being available. If we use invalid locale string, it's not software
26 being broken but the environment.
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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