Bug 416597 – media-gfx/gimp does not respect LINGUAS

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Philip Webb 2012-05-19 09:33:31 UTC]

Gimp-2.6.12 dumps unwanted files,
eg /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20.mo ,
which are removed by 'localepurge'.

Reproducible: Always




Another in the series ...

[Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping 2012-05-21 16:39:30 UTC]

Please provide patches.  Honestly, it has very low priority to me otherwise.

[Comment 2 Philip Webb 2012-05-22 03:31:44 UTC]

I'm not sure whether your response is directed to me, a user,
or to the bug wranglers.  As a user, I don't patch ebuilds.

Around the beginning of 2012 there was a proposal to remove 'localepurge',
which I protested on the dev list & was told by Mike Frysinger
to submit bugs whenever any further case of a misbehaving package appeared.
Subsequently, I submitted bugs 401525 & 401563 , which were dealt with.

This is not a trivial matter : a package can dump a large amount
of totally unnecessary stuff onto a user's hard drive
& fixing it to respect LINGUAS sb fairly simple for a qualified dev.

I'm always grateful for the unpaid labor of Gentoo devs,
but your response here is not appropriate.

[Comment 3 Sebastian Pipping 2012-05-28 17:34:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm always grateful for the unpaid labor of Gentoo devs,
> but your response here is not appropriate.

Hello Philip,

some users do submit patches and (without knowing if you were on of those) I just went dare asking.  If you are not going to submit a patch that's perfectly fine.  I don't really see how my reply is inappropriate.  You should see that stack of more important stuff in my inbox :-)  If there is something you want me to understand and learn here please elaborate.

[Comment 4 Sebastian Pipping 2012-05-28 20:47:48 UTC]

+*gimp-2.8.0-r1 (28 May 2012)
+
+  28 May 2012; Sebastian Pipping <[e-mail]> +gimp-2.8.0-r1.ebuild:
+  Add linguas_* use flags to latest 2.8.x ebuild (bug #416597)
+

[Comment 5 Philip Webb 2012-05-28 21:34:20 UTC]

"Honestly, it has very low priority to me otherwise".

That's what irritated me briefly (smile).  I hope my prod didn't hurt !
You seem to have fixed the ebuild very quickly & easily
after I made the point that this is a non-trivial problem,
but its solution sb fairly simple.

Thanks again to you & all the other Gentoo devs.

[Comment 6 Sebastian Pipping 2012-05-28 21:39:38 UTC]

Actually, it's not as trivial as it could be and the compile time of Gimp makes the whole thing take much longer than necessary.  I'm at 2.6.x at the moment.

[Comment 7 Sebastian Pipping 2012-05-28 22:27:06 UTC]

+*gimp-2.6.12-r1 (28 May 2012)
+
+  28 May 2012; Sebastian Pipping <[e-mail]> +gimp-2.6.12-r1.ebuild:
+  Port linguas handling (bug #416597) and deletion of .la files to latest 2.6.x
+  ebuild
+