Re: Handling of /usr/share/locale for package name changes

2007-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:59:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 12:50 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Well, the translations really should not be part of the ABI of the library; > > libraries shouldn't be engaging in direct interaction with the user, so the > >

Re: Handling of /usr/share/locale for package name changes

2007-02-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 12:50 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > Well, the translations really should not be part of the ABI of the library; > libraries shouldn't be engaging in direct interaction with the user, so the > use case for localization of libraries is really limited to interfaces su

Re: Handling of /usr/share/locale for package name changes

2007-02-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:23:29PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Some shared libraries have gettext translations below /usr/share/locale > with the source package name as textdomain. When such a shared lib > changes SONAME, how are you handling it? > 1) check all strings to see whether there ar

Handling of /usr/share/locale for package name changes

2007-02-11 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi there, Some shared libraries have gettext translations below /usr/share/locale with the source package name as textdomain. When such a shared lib changes SONAME, how are you handling it? 1) check all strings to see whether there are only additions and no incompatible changes, and