Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Build log locales

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Andreas K Huettel wrote:
>>> [...] I consider any build system that fails depending on locale as
>>> br0ken and in need of fixing.
>>
>> +1
>>
>
> You are welcome to waste your time fixing python setup.py files and
> unit tests that are broken unless you have a UTF-8 locale set. I think
> there are better uses of our time.
>

I think we're drifting topic-wise.  The main concern is about bug
reports written in languages other than english that may be difficult
for most developers to read, and not so much about build-system
compatibility with locale settings.  Sure, they should support
everything, but it isn't a critical bug if they don't.

My personal feeling on this is that maintainers should not be required
to accept bugs that contain logs generally written in something other
than English.  They may still accept them at their own discretion.

I'm also fine with default portage configurations that support logs in
English by default even when the system locale is not set this way, as
long as users have a way to override the setting.

Rich