A question about locale files

[Felix Kaechele]

Hi Robin,

I'm sure a peek into 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Handling_Locale_Files 
will definitely help you.

HTH,
Felix

Am 26.04.2010 17:46, schrieb Robin 'cheese' Lee:
> Hello!
> I am now dealing with a package named 'gentoo'.
> It installs following locale files:
>
> /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.CP1251/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.KOI8-R/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.cp1251/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.koi8r/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
> /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gentoo.mo
>
> There are some issues here:
> 1. Directories like /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.* are not provided by any
> package. This conflicts with guidelines.
> 2. /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.utf8 and /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.UTF-8/ are
> obvious duplicates.
> 3. /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.UTF-8/ should be identical with
> /usr/share/locale/ru/, /usr/share/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/ should be
> identical with /usr/share/locale/ja/ .
>
> Which is the proper way to solve these issues?