[Bins] Re: [Cooker] rpmlint yells about some 2 letters locales only

Guillaume Rousse rousse at ccr.jussieu.fr
Fri Feb 27 21:26:47 GMT 2004


Abel Cheung wrote:
> On 2004-02-26(Thu) 19:02:09 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> 
>>>>>>[guillomovitch at klama guillomovitch]$ rpmlint -i
>>>>>>rpm/RPMS/noarch/bins-1.1.25-1mdk.noarch.rpm
>>>>>>E: bins invalid-lc-messages-dir /usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/bins.mo
>>>>>>Why does rpmlint only yells about zh ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Because zh isn't enough: zh_CN is for China, zh_HK for Hong Kong
>>>>>and zh_TW for Taiwan.
> 
> [........ snip .........]
> 
>>>there's no zh locale whereas nearly all fr_XX locales share the same
>>>locales definition.
> 
> 
>>Seems to be an upsteam bug then. Jérôme ?
> 
> 
> Yes, the translation catalog concerned is in Big5 encoding, so it should
> be "zh" -> "zh_TW".
There is already a zh_TW.Big5.po file in the directory, without any 
corresponding .mo file.

BTW, the original tarball contains both .mo and .po files, whereas the 
second are supposed to get produced from the first at build time.
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