[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/3] Fix pacman's log messages not being translated

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2012 7:20 AM, "Allan McRae" <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 13/12/12 22:12, jjacky wrote:
>> >
>> > On 12/13/12 12:48, Allan McRae wrote:
>> >> On 13/12/12 21:38, Olivier Brunel wrote:
>> >>> Log messages should be translated as well. (Those from ALPM already
> are.)
>> >>
>> >> I can not find a single alpm_logaction line in libalpm with a
> translated
>> >> string...
>> >
>> > Right, not sure what I did, but I got that all wrong indeed, apologies.
>> > Should I resend the other two patches without the translation in then?
>>
>> Not yet... I suggest waiting for comments
>>
>> > Quick question also: while not a native English speaker, I don't
>> > like/use translations myself; Is it how things usually work,
>> > translations are for user interface only, and don't apply to logs?
>> > Or is this especially for "system" softwares?
>>
>> We are debating this in IRC...  The --debug output should never be
>> translated, but whether the log file should be is debatable.
>>
>> One thing to note is that translation will break tools that deal with
>> the log files like paclog-pkglist from pacman-contrib.
>>
>> I'd like to hear others opinions on this.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>
> I think this could/should be treated like any other proposed change in log
> format. Is it worth it in this case? I tend to think not. We've had display
> issues in the past and even errors in scripts because of bad translations.
> Obviously the "attack" surface is small here given the limited strings
> being translated, but I'm generally -1 on this.

Definite NACK.

commit 4906e15d0d31bf0442c25af44bcb637b87a7b027
Author: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 9 00:46:29 2007 -0400

    Remove gettext from any alpm_logaction calls

    We shouldn't translate log messages to pacman.log so it is consistant and
    can be parsed by other tools. Remove all gettext _() around these strings.

    Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>

https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=4906e15d0d31bf0442c25af44bcb637b87a7b027

-Dan