Bug 111899 – man and locale LINGUAS support feedback

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Sandro Bonazzola (RETIRED) 2005-11-08 11:23:34 UTC]

There quite a lot of ebuilds that does not respect LINGUAS for man pages and
locale data. The list of packages I've tested on my pc with LINGUAS=it that
install other languages man pages and locale data:

x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6
app-mobilephone/kmobiletools-0.4.3.1
app-mobilephone/gsmlib-1.11_pre041028
app-mobilephone/scmxx-0.8.0
app-admin/gkrellm-2.2.7
sci-astronomy/ksetispy-0.6.2
app-misc/linux-logo-4.12
sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1
kde-misc/kdiff3-0.9.88
kde-misc/krusader-1.60.0
kde-misc/kbeam-0.61
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.7-r2
media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.16-r2
sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r-r1
sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r5
sys-apps/help2man-1.35.1
sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r11
sys-apps/eject-2.1.0
sys-apps/attr-2.4.23
sys-apps/acl-2.2.31
net-misc/whois-4.7.2
net-misc/whois-4.7.8
net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4
dev-libs/eb-4.2
dev-util/subversion-1.2.3-r3
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a-r1
media-sound/aumix-2.8-r2
app-antivirus/klamav-0.22.1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. export LINGUAS=it
2. emerge any of the above
3. see CONTENTS file for installed files

Actual Results:  
All above packages install at leas one file of other LINGUAS.

Expected Results:  
All the above packages respect LINGUAS.

It's possible remove unwanted man pages and locale data using localepurge. So
removing the unwanted data is quite trivial. But I think that if the support for
the LINGUAS env can be added at the ebuild without do some black magic it should
be added. This bug doesn't cause any loss of function and it may be not so
trivial so I think it could be an enhancement.

[Comment 1 Sandro Bonazzola (RETIRED) 2005-11-11 02:43:33 UTC]

app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r2 install ru man pages in /usr/share/man/man1

/usr/share/man/man1/gpg.ru.1.gz

should be installed as /usr/share/man/ru/man1/gpg.1.gz
with LINGUAS=ru.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-11-11 03:06:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r2 install ru man pages in /usr/share/man/man1

That's a completely separate issue, please keep on topic. Thanks.

[Comment 3 Sandro Bonazzola (RETIRED) 2006-09-06 13:43:35 UTC]

Updated list for my current configuration and LINGUAS=it.

app-editors/nano-1.3.12-r1
app-misc/gramps-2.0.11
app-mobilephone/scmxx-0.9.0
app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.2_p20060520
dev-libs/libcdio-0.77
games-strategy/wesnoth-1.0.2
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.12
media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716
sys-apps/help2man-1.36.4
sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r12
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.18.1
x11-wm/windowmaker-0.92.0-r3

[Comment 4 Charlie Shepherd (RETIRED) 2006-10-07 06:43:26 UTC]

With the patches I submitted in Bug 150097 , you can simply run "equery b `localepurge -p` | sort | uniq" to get a list of locale offenders.

Here is my list:

app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17
app-portage/kuroo-0.80.2-r1
dev-util/subversion-1.4.0
gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1
media-gfx/fontforge-20060822
media-gfx/gimp-2.3.11
media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r2
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.13
net-misc/knemo-0.4.5
net-misc/neon-0.26.1-r1
net-p2p/nicotine-1.0.8
net-print/cups-1.2.4
sys-apps/acl-2.2.39-r1
sys-apps/attr-2.4.32
sys-apps/eject-2.1.5
sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8
sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r-r4
x11-libs/libwnck-2.16.0
x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.3.3

Repeating this after emerge -e world would probably find a _lot_ more.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-12 04:54:13 UTC]

*** Bug 150999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Charlie Shepherd (RETIRED) 2006-11-24 03:16:59 UTC]

I'd like to clean up a lot of these packages...

[Comment 7 Panagiotis Christopoulos (RETIRED) 2010-09-21 15:39:30 UTC]

*** Bug 336136 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***