Bug 934772

Summary:	[Tracker] Packages installing to /usr/lib/locale incorrectly
Product:	Quality Assurance	Reporter:	Sam James <sam>
Component:	Trackers	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfm
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	934775, 27310
Bug Blocks:

Description Sam James archtester

2024-06-23 13:37:49 UTC

/usr/lib/locale is not for general translations - those should be installed at /usr/share/locale.

To make matters worse, Kerin notes that sys-apps/locale-gen currently destroys the non-glibc locales stored in /usr/lib/locale, which means:
a) obviously the functionality if it could ever work is broken upon locale-gen being run;
b) files installed by a package suddenly disappear which is impure.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2024-06-23 15:27:53 UTC

https://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php?fs=%2Fusr%2Flib%2Flocale%2F*&unique=1 lists some infringers.