Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2011-11-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es, 2011-11-03, 18:38: With the advent of multi-arch, such behavior has become a problem. If a package is marked as Multi-Arch: same all the files (including *.mo) have to be identical across all architectures. Hmm, why do they have to be identical? It is not

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2011-11-10 Thread Santiago Vila
El 10/11/11 12:34, Jakub Wilk escribió: * Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es, 2011-11-03, 18:38: With the advent of multi-arch, such behavior has become a problem. If a package is marked as Multi-Arch: same all the files (including *.mo) have to be identical across all architectures. Hmm, why do

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2011-11-03 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es, 2008-02-28, 12:10: msgfmt does support --endianness {big|little} from the source in gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c neil@dwarf:po$ file messages.mo messages.mo: GNU message catalog (little endian), revision 0, 14 messages neil@dwarf:po$ msgfmt --endianness big cs.po

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2011-11-03 Thread Santiago Vila
El 03/11/11 16:24, Jakub Wilk escribió: * Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es, 2008-02-28, 12:10: msgfmt does support --endianness {big|little} from the source in gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c neil@dwarf:po$ file messages.mo messages.mo: GNU message catalog (little endian), revision 0, 14 messages

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2008-08-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, While reading http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468209 I have to agree with most of what Santiago said. Neil Williams said: On big endian systems, the CPU wastes time converting the endianness at loadtime which is important for embedded devices. Do you have any figures?

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2008-03-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Neil, Am 2008-02-29 07:27:47, schrieb Neil Williams: Source packages that put .mo files into an Arch:all binary are buggy - implementing that fix will involve lots of work in Debian to handle the increase in package numbers but leave that to me - I'll sort out the mass bug filing(s)

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2008-02-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Neil Williams wrote: .mo files *are* architecture dependent and should be handled as such. Just because 'it happens to work' right now does not mean it is the correct way to handle .mo files. I'm curious: Do you plan to do the same with PCM .wav files? (They are always

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2008-02-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:51:19 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Neil Williams wrote: .mo files *are* architecture dependent and should be handled as such. Just because 'it happens to work' right now does not mean it is the correct way to handle .mo

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2008-02-28 Thread Neil Williams
reopen 468209 quit On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:10:23 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Neil Williams wrote: msgfmt does support --endianness {big|little} from the source in gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:po$ file messages.mo

Bug#468209: msgfmt: no documentation of the --endianness option

2008-02-27 Thread Neil Williams
Package: gettext Version: 0.17-2 Severity: wishlist msgfmt does support --endianness {big|little} from the source in gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:po$ file messages.mo messages.mo: GNU message catalog (little endian), revision 0, 14 messages [EMAIL PROTECTED]:po$ msgfmt