Bug 560116 – Gentoo ebuilds should have internal unified approach to i10n

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Arsen Shnurkov 2015-09-10 12:35:56 UTC]

There is no guide on how to author documentation for new national-language programs.

Each ebuild does it in it's own way:
france, japan, debian:
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d/sys-process/fcron/fcron-3.1.2-r2.ebuild#L168-L174

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d/dev-util/debhelper/debhelper-9.20150628.ebuild#L55-L69

I propose to implement a new helper class man-i18n.eclass and add all that cycles there. But the most important piece - is the documentation for authors of new programs, how they should name their man files in their native languages.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2015-09-10 16:30:31 UTC]

You could post your proposal on the gentoo-dev mailing list. That's where we discuss new eclasses.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2015-09-10 16:33:10 UTC]

Assigning to base-system, since they would be the likely maintainers of your proposed eclass.

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2015-09-10 20:40:01 UTC]

Ben already maintains the l10n eclass so he may be interested in this one as well.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2015-09-11 05:24:18 UTC]

you mean i10n (localization), not i18n (internationalization).  we have a unified format already for users (you set LINGUAS), but leave it up to developers to manage IUSE however they want in their ebuild.

wrt man category naming, there's already a standard, and that is beyond Gentoo.  in that regard, both ebuilds you highlight are doing the same thing.

so what exactly is it you expect man-i10n.eclass (not man-i18n) to do ?