Bug#1013946: lintian: wrongly report unknown-locale-code ber

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 27/06/2022 23:53, Russ Allbery ha scritto:

Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:

Fabio Fantoni <fantonifa...@tiscali.it> writes:

Hi, on a lintian output I saw:
W: xapps-common: unknown-locale-code ber [usr/share/locale/ber/]
but ber locale exists:
https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?code_ID=54

Thanks for the report!  Lintian gets the canonical list of locales from
the iso-codes package, and if I'm reading the last modification times from
its Salsa repository correctly, it may have been a bit since it was
updated.
I'm reassigning this bug to iso-codes for further investigation and cc'ing
the maintainer.

Hm, sorry about the self-follow-up.  I looked at this a bit further, and
now I think this may be intentional.  I believe ber refers to a language
*group* rather than a single language, and thus is an ISO 639-5 code but
not an ISO 639-3 code.

Lintian specifically uses ISO 639-3 to get a list of known locale
identifiers.

Do you know if an ISO 639-5 locale works properly on a Debian system, in
the sense that it can be used for translations and the other normal locale
things?  ber seems to be the code for the Berber *family* of languages,
which has multiple members that have their own ISO 639-3 codes.  I'm not
sure that locale information for the entire family, as opposed to
individual members of that family, makes sense.

I don't know if "ber" locale works but in xapp and other cinnamon components there is a partial translation related, this is why I encountered this warning on lintian, the translation is done with launchpad: https://translations.launchpad.net/linuxmint/latest/+lang/ber

ber is supported in launchpad, transifex (https://www.transifex.com/explore/languages/) that I use, I don't search on others.

from another search now I found this: https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/ber.en.html and seems ber is used only in few packages and all with partial translation so I suppose thatthere are no users using it, even if it works there are too few translated strings

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