Bug#671257: gettext: msgfmt output format prevents multiarch migration

2012-05-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 6 May 2012, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:23:41PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I think including .mo files in a library package is wrong by itself, > > with or without multiarch, because the next sonme bump will force > > the new library package to conflict the old

Bug#671257: gettext: msgfmt output format prevents multiarch migration

2012-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:23:41PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > I think including .mo files in a library package is wrong by itself, > with or without multiarch, because the next sonme bump will force > the new library package to conflict the old one, which is contrary > to the general design of l

Bug#671257: gettext: msgfmt output format prevents multiarch migration (fwd)

2012-05-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Santiago Vila wrote: > I remember well the bug by Neil Williams: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468209 > > where he asked --endianness to be documented, as he was thinking about > using it in his embedded projects to override the current msgfmt default of > always creating l

Bug#671257: gettext: msgfmt output format prevents multiarch migration (fwd)

2012-05-03 Thread Santiago Vila
[ Adding Steve Langasek, multiarch architect in Debian, to Cc list ]. On Thu, 3 May 2012, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Santiago, > > > A long time ago, people working on embedded systems in Debian had the > > idea that it would be a good thing to have .mo files in the same > > endianness as the arch

Bug#671257: gettext: msgfmt output format prevents multiarch migration

2012-05-02 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 671257 wishlist thanks El 02/05/12 20:56, Paul Martin escribió: Package: gettext Version: 0.18.1.1-6 Severity: important Tags: l10n msgfmt produces binary files which vary dependent on the endianness of the system you build on. As localization files are supposed to be placed in /usr/s

Bug#671257: gettext: msgfmt output format prevents multiarch migration

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Martin
Package: gettext Version: 0.18.1.1-6 Severity: important Tags: l10n msgfmt produces binary files which vary dependent on the endianness of the system you build on. As localization files are supposed to be placed in /usr/share/ this means that packages with localized strings fail the requirement