Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Feb 1999, Jim Pick wrote: > > > > I somehow sense that slink/potato gtk/gnome is going to be painfull.. > > > > I agree. I'm only planning to support Gnome 0.99.x/1.0 on potato. > > Oh, I was just reminded of this on the dpkg list.. The gtk (gdk? I forget) > library packages have been internationalized but the messages directory > they use does not include the soname of the library! Thus it is impossible > to have two properly installed version of the libraries with different > sonames, this is an upstream bug of course, but it is kind of serious.
Ewww. I see: fleming:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES$ ls WindowMaker.mo kasteroids.mo kedit.mo kmines.mo kstart.mo ark.mo kbiff.mo kfax.mo kmix.mo ksysv.mo clisp.mo kblackbox.mo kfind.mo knotes.mo ktalkd.mo control-center.mo kcalc.mo kfinger.mo knu.mo ktetris.mo ee.mo kcmbell.mo kfloppy.mo konsole.mo kuser.mo enscript.mo kcmdisplay.mo kfm.mo korganizer.mo kview.mo fileutils.mo kcminfo.mo kfontmanager.mo korn.mo kvt.mo freetype.mo kcminput.mo kfract.mo kpaint.mo kwm.mo gettext.mo kcmkfm.mo kghostview.mo kpanel.mo libc.mo glade.mo kcmkpanel.mo khexdit.mo kpat.mo libgtop.mo gnome-core.mo kcmktalkd.mo kiconedit.mo kpm.mo man-db.mo gnome-games.mo kcmkwm.mo kikbd.mo kpoker.mo mutt.mo gnome-libs.mo kcmlocale.mo kjots.mo kppp.mo rpm.mo gnome-media.mo kcmsamba.mo klipper.mo kreversi.mo sh-utils.mo gnome-utils.mo kcmsample.mo kljettool.mo krn.mo sharutils.mo gnumeric.mo kcmsyssound.mo klock.mo krootwm.mo tar.mo gnupg.mo kcontrol.mo klpq.mo ksame.mo tcsh grep.mo kdat.mo klyx.mo kscd.mo textutils.mo gtk+.mo kde.mo kmahjongg.mo kshisen.mo wget.mo kab.mo kdehelp.mo kmail.mo ksirc.mo yp-tools.mo kabalone.mo kdm.mo kmedia.mo ksmiletris.mo karchie.mo kdmconfig.mo kmenuedit.mo ksnake.mo karm.mo kdvi.mo kmid.mo ksnapshot.mo It looks like nobody is using SONAMEs. On my system, I see this affecting: kdelibs0g libgnome0 libgtk1.1.* libgtop0 They should be splitting the locale files into library and non-library parts as well. I'll have to raise that upstream. I don't know much about gettext though. Cheers, - Jim
