rpmlint incorrect-locale-sv message

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Sep 14 07:05:23 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 21:24 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "SP" == Steven Pritchard <steve at silug.org> writes:
> 
> SP> E: tuxpaint-stamps incorrect-locale-sv
> SP> /usr/share/locale/sw/LC_MESSAGES/tuxpaint-stamps.mo
> 
> You can look at /usr/share/rpmlint/I18NCheck.py to see what's going on
> here.
> 
> Basically the assumption is that if you have a locale of "sw", you
> must have intended to type "sv" instead and so rpmlint spits out an
> error.  Honestly I think it's quite hilariously arrogant to assume
> that there will never legitimately be any software translated to
> Swahili.  The check should be completely excised from the rpmlint
> source; care to file a bug?
> 
> SP> That file is Swahili, which means the error is bogus, right?
> 
> That file certainly purports to be Swahili and it certainly isn't
> Swedish (although ironically it was translated by someone in Sweden).
> The error is absolutely bogus.

Reported upstream:
http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/49

Paul.




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