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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Build log locales
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:07:12
Message-Id: 20993.7976.994739.808349@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Build log locales (was: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-08-13) by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 >>>>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Andreas K Huettel wrote:
2
3 > 1) do we want to require english build logs in bugzilla (ie.
4 > non-english logs make a bug invalid)?
5
6 I would leave this at the maintainer's discretion. IMHO it could at
7 most be a guideline that logs should be in English, but e.g. bug
8 wranglers shouldn't close a bug as invalid if the log is in another
9 language.
10
11 > 2) do we want to make the build logs english by default (i.e. even
12 > if a locale is set globally, the user would have to install a second
13 > override in e.g. make.conf to obtain localized build logs)?
14
15 See above.
16
17 > 3) if yes to 2), which locale?
18
19 POSIX (or C) is the only choice that is guaranteed to exist
20 everywhere.
21
22 > [...] I consider any build system that fails depending on locale as
23 > br0ken and in need of fixing.
24
25 +1
26
27 > Am Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2013, 11:41:54 schrieb Ulrich Mueller:
28
29 What about the locale used to send e-mail to our lists? :p
30
31 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Build log locales Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>