[gentoo-dev] LINGUAS to be removed from USE_EXPAND

[gentoo-dev] LINGUAS to be removed from USE_EXPAND

[Ulrich Mueller]

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Last year we had announced introduction of a new L10N variable
intended to replace LINGUAS as a USE_EXPAND variable [1]. Since then,
many packages have been converted to the new variable.

The next step in the conversion will be removal of LINGUAS from
USE_EXPAND, which means that LINGUAS will become a normal variable,
maintaining the standard gettext behaviour. For a transition time,
all linguas_* flags currently existing in packages' IUSE will be
added to use.desc, but will be removed again when conversion of the
remaining packages is complete.

The plan is to remove LINGUAS from USE_EXPAND in one week from now.
Please speak up if you think this would cause issues for your
packages. A test run using CI [2] was done by mgorny, and it hasn't
shown any problems.

I also assume that the permission for fixing packages [3] still holds.

Ulrich

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html
[2] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/945e16d4b/output.html
[3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/91366d0b71d246d47cf01d23b1f8fff6

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Re: [gentoo-dev] LINGUAS to be removed from USE_EXPAND

[grozin]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Last year we had announced introduction of a new L10N variable
> intended to replace LINGUAS as a USE_EXPAND variable [1]. Since then,
> many packages have been converted to the new variable.
>
> The next step in the conversion will be removal of LINGUAS from
> USE_EXPAND, which means that LINGUAS will become a normal variable,
> maintaining the standard gettext behaviour. For a transition time,
> all linguas_* flags currently existing in packages' IUSE will be
> added to use.desc, but will be removed again when conversion of the
> remaining packages is complete.
The package sci-mathematics/maxima for ages uses linguas_* flags for 
installing translated documentation, the possible values of * are

de es pt pt_BR

This usage is, I suppose, wrong. I tried simply to replace all linguas_ to 
l10n_ in the ebuild, but repoman complains about pt_BR.

What is the correct mechanism to install translated documentation 
depending on the user's wishes?

Andrey

Re: [gentoo-dev] LINGUAS to be removed from USE_EXPAND

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

grozin@gentoo.org schrieb:

> The package sci-mathematics/maxima for ages uses linguas_* flags for
> installing translated documentation, the possible values of * are
> 
> de es pt pt_BR
> 
> This usage is, I suppose, wrong. I tried simply to replace all linguas_ to
> l10n_ in the ebuild, but repoman complains about pt_BR.

It should be l10n_pt-BR.
LINGUAS used POSIX locales which define _ as separator between language and
territory, while L10N uses BCP 47 which defines - as separator.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

Re: [gentoo-dev] LINGUAS to be removed from USE_EXPAND

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:

> grozin@gentoo.org schrieb:
>> The package sci-mathematics/maxima for ages uses linguas_* flags for
>> installing translated documentation, the possible values of * are
>>
>> de es pt pt_BR
>>
>> This usage is, I suppose, wrong. I tried simply to replace all linguas_ to
>> l10n_ in the ebuild, but repoman complains about pt_BR.

> It should be l10n_pt-BR.
> LINGUAS used POSIX locales which define _ as separator between language and
> territory, while L10N uses BCP 47 which defines - as separator.

Right. Actually, the news item [1] has a brief explanation (even with
pt-BR as example):

| Note that while the common two letter language codes (like "de" or
| "fr") are identical, more complex entries have a different syntax
| because L10N now uses IETF language tags. (For example, "pt_BR"
| becomes "pt-BR" and "sr@latin" becomes "sr-Latn".) You can look up
| the available codes in profiles/desc/l10n.desc in the gentoo tree.
| A detailed description of language tags (aka BCP 47) can be found
| at: https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/

Ulrich

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html

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[gentoo-dev] Re: LINGUAS to be removed from USE_EXPAND

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Last year we had announced introduction of a new L10N variable
> intended to replace LINGUAS as a USE_EXPAND variable [1]. Since then,
> many packages have been converted to the new variable.

> The next step in the conversion will be removal of LINGUAS from
> USE_EXPAND, which means that LINGUAS will become a normal variable,
> maintaining the standard gettext behaviour. For a transition time,
> all linguas_* flags currently existing in packages' IUSE will be
> added to use.desc, but will be removed again when conversion of the
> remaining packages is complete.

> The plan is to remove LINGUAS from USE_EXPAND in one week from now.
> Please speak up if you think this would cause issues for your
> packages. A test run using CI [2] was done by mgorny, and it hasn't
> shown any problems.

This has been pushed now, plus the announced update of l10n.eclass.
Expect some USE flag changes on packages.

Ulrich

> [1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html
> [2] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/945e16d4b/output.html

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