[gentoo-project] Re: Build log locales

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Andreas K Huettel wrote:

> 1) do we want to require english build logs in bugzilla (ie.
> non-english logs make a bug invalid)?

I would leave this at the maintainer's discretion. IMHO it could at
most be a guideline that logs should be in English, but e.g. bug
wranglers shouldn't close a bug as invalid if the log is in another
language.

> 2) do we want to make the build logs english by default (i.e. even
> if a locale is set globally, the user would have to install a second
> override in e.g. make.conf to obtain localized build logs)?

See above.

> 3) if yes to 2), which locale?

POSIX (or C) is the only choice that is guaranteed to exist
everywhere.

> [...] I consider any build system that fails depending on locale as
> br0ken and in need of fixing.

+1

> Am Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2013, 11:41:54 schrieb Ulrich Mueller:

What about the locale used to send e-mail to our lists? :p

Ulrich