Norbert Preining wrote:
AFAIS there is nothing wrong with makeinfo.
I strongly disagree with that and support Yann's and Josip's point of
view in their messages for #113988.
You could have a wishlist that makeinfo ignores the locales, but
this could also be a conscious decision of the author.
True, at least theoretically. In practice, I have yet to see a
texinfo file that is _not_ written in English.
I don't see why we=Debian should patch/hack a file to behave completely
different from upstream under certain circumstances...
Surely, Debian should not deviate from upstream; this issue has to be
resolved upstream.
...when a simple
LC_ALL=C ...
would be enough.
Indeed, setting LC_ALL=C is what I do as this is necessary to reliably
build any software package that produces info files. This nullifies
the fine efforts the translators of gcc, make etc. undertook, but
so be it.
Ok, it is true that it might be better to have a switch like
--interface=fr
so that the generated files are in french, and the normal messages as
specified in LC_*.
That is how makeinfo should work, yes.
BUt, as I said, wishlist.
If one comes up with a patch, Karl normally is very open to suggestions,
but I am really sure that fixing something which is not necessarily an
error is high on his todo list.
I guess you meant to insert a "not" here, either before "really" or
before "high". Anyway, at least it seems to be on his todo list, as I
found the following in /usr/share/doc/texinfo/TODO.gz:
,----
| * Makeinfo:
| - [...]
| - Use @documentlanguage instead of LANG for many translations.
`----
If this could be implemented (and authors use @documentlanguage), it
would solve the problem.
Regards,
Sven
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