>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Last year we had announced introduction of a new L10N variable
> intended to replace LINGUAS as a USE_EXPAND variable [1]. Since then,
> many packages have been converted to the new variable.

> The next step in the conversion will be removal of LINGUAS from
> USE_EXPAND, which means that LINGUAS will become a normal variable,
> maintaining the standard gettext behaviour. For a transition time,
> all linguas_* flags currently existing in packages' IUSE will be
> added to use.desc, but will be removed again when conversion of the
> remaining packages is complete.

> The plan is to remove LINGUAS from USE_EXPAND in one week from now.
> Please speak up if you think this would cause issues for your
> packages. A test run using CI [2] was done by mgorny, and it hasn't
> shown any problems.

This has been pushed now, plus the announced update of l10n.eclass.
Expect some USE flag changes on packages.

Ulrich

> [1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html
> [2] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/945e16d4b/output.html

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