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FS#50534 - Standardize writing of locale name for packaging

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Saturday, 27 August 2016, 10:32 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 16:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I know rule of packaging is that all letters should be lower-case and no underlines, however I do believe these rules should not be applied to locale name, which has already a standard, something like zh_CN.
What's more, there are some package has "i18n" in package name(firefox-i18n-zh-cn for example), others don't (saying libreoffice-fresh-zh-CN).
I believe a standardization should be better.
Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 16:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  LibO capital letters have been fixed in trunk for future builds.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 27 August 2016, 14:29 GMT
Pacman will not allow underscores.

IMO, the only bug here is that libreoffice is using capital letters in it's pkgnames.
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Sunday, 28 August 2016, 08:35 GMT
No, I see two problems here:
1, In my opinion, we should use standard writing way for locale, saying zh_CN, for i18n packages; If you don't agree, at least follow packaging rule of Arch, currently in repositories some packages have zh-cn, and others have zh_cn.
2, For every i18n package, we should use package name + locale instead of adding a "i18n" between. Saying current firefox-i18n-zh-cn, should be firefox-zh-cn.

Thanks for your time.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 28 August 2016, 15:48 GMT
Ah shoot, it's the pkgver that disallows underscores, not the pkgname. My mistake.

Edit: crap, and it's hyphens that are disallowed, not underscores. I really screwed this one up.

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