From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] - remove timestamps from .po files Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:33:33 -0600 Message-ID: <47307B3D.2010708@redhat.com> References: <472F8792.6030808@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso , ext4 development To: Thierry Vignaud Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33342 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751847AbXKFOdi (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:33:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Eric Sandeen writes: > >> Another one that's been in RH/Fedora specfiles a while. >> Remove timestamps from .po files to avoid multilib conflicts. >> It ain't pretty but it works. > > Sorry but that's insane. > > Pos should not be updated on build. They should only be updated by > upstream developers instead. This enable translators to catch up and > prevent such hackery Hrm, good point. > Your spec file should not contain "make -C po update-po" in the first > place. > This is a fedora bug, not an e2fsprogs one IMHO. > > You introduced your own multi-lib in the first place... Apparently there was some issue with this, once upon a time, which resulted in our rpms needing to update the po files... I guess I need to do a bit more code archeology / research. It looks like sct added this when the pkg updated to 1.36, though there is no comment about why. I inherited lots of history when I got e2fsprogs, so please forgive me as I work through it. :) One question though, then - what is the existing timestamp removal mechanism for, then? -Eric