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Bug#113991: marked as done (lintian: could check whether info/html files not influenced by locale)

Your message dated Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:15:49 -0700
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and subject line This bug appears to be fixed in texinfo
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.20.14.1
Severity: normal

makeinfo currently wrongly uses locale settings to produce l10n'd text
in generated info or html file.  Until this is fixed, makeinfo has to
be run under LC_ALL=C.

This can be detected by the translation of a couple of strings.  This
should probably only be a warning if there is no way to know what's
the language of the texinfo source.

Eg:

--- cssc-0.13alpha.pl0.orig/docs/cssc.info
+++ cssc-0.13alpha.pl0/docs/cssc.info
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-This is cssc.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0 from cssc.texi.
+Ceci est le fichier Info cssc.info, produit par Makeinfo version 4.0b à
+partir cssc.texi.

Curiously in generated .info, "Node:" is not translated, whereas it is
translated in generated HTML, so it may not be a good test.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.2.19+reiserfs+ide #1 Wed Jun 13 20:05:28 CEST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=français, LC_CTYPE=français

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                  2.11.90.0.31-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                  1.28-1         produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                      3.33-5         Determines file type using "magic"
ii  perl                      5.6.1-5        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl [perl5]              5.6.1-5        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

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--- Begin Message --- 
I can't find a precise mention of the original problem (makeinfo
incorrectly translating bits of its output that have to stay
untranslated), but looking at the current texinfo source and the oldest
texinfo source that ftp.gnu.org has (4.5) it looks like this problem has
been fixed for a while.  Given that, I don't think the lintian test is
still necessary or useful.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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