On 9 April 2010 00:16, Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> wrote: > Jumping in that thread (you would have guessed I would, right? :-)) >
:-) > There are even some locales that correspond to *no* ISO-639-3 code > /usr/share/i18n/locales/ber_DZ: Berber (Algeria) > /usr/share/i18n/locales/ber_MA: Berber (Morocco) (for lintian's current purposes, the country code is ignored; FWIW) > Maybe, if possible, check that a locale exists for the said language. > > We can quite safely assume that, if a locale exists with a given > ISO-639-3 code, then it has been carefully though by glibc maintainers > (either upstream or Debian/Ubuntu maintainers). I considered using /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED as the source of information but it is far from being complete. > So, maybe lintian could check that, if foo_BAR.po file exists in a > package, there is at least one foo_* file in /usr/share/i18n/locales Am I missing something or wouldn't adding the 639-3 codes to the list of known and valid codes be enough? Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/y2he9fb436d1004082325m81f94ec3qf0a5d78f65bc6...@mail.gmail.com
