SPECS: fortunes-pl.spec - add todo

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

Bartosz Taudul wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:06:14PM +0100, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > > fortunes-pl.spec generator is really simple.
> > And it's broken
> It's broken because the spec was fixed, not generator.
> 
> > if used for something more than pregeneration of initial spec:
> The initial generated spec should also be final spec.
> 
> > - drops spec changelog
> cvs log fortunes-pl.spec or write some parser to put output of that
> command into generated spec.

If using generator this information will probably be useless.
The information what has been changed in the generator since the previous
spec generation would be more appropriate. But I see no way to automate
this.

> > - uses ISO-8859-2 charset which is deprecated in specs
> Convert README to utf-8, add declaration to templates, problem fixed.

READE.en, README.pl, etc. ?

> > - puts incomprehensible Polish descriptions as C ones, using characters
> >   invalid in us-ascii encoding
> Encoding can be fixed by using iconv, and what do you expect to put in C

# echo 'że dodać prośby' | iconv -f iso8859-2 -t us-ascii//translit
?e doda? pro?by

Will you fix transliteration rules in glibc or suggest appropriate pl-en
dictionary for these forms?

> description? The contents are polish, so is the description. If someone
> doesn't understand the description, neither will he understand the

The C description is generally for those who do not understand Polish.
They should get information why they should (not) install the package.

> contnts. The generic "XXX polish fortunes." description doesn't look
> good to me, although that's some solution.

Maybe.

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