Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:18:33PM +1200, Steven Drake wrote:
> :On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:58:25AM +0000, Steven Drake wrote:
> > > Module Name:      pkgsrc
> > > Committed By:     sbd
> > > Date:             Thu Apr  5 02:58:25 UTC 2012
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-faroese: Makefile
> > >   pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-norwegian: Makefile
> > >   pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-portuguese: Makefile
> > >   pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-romanian: Makefile
> > >   pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-spanish: Makefile
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Mark packages as BROKEN if using "pkg" package format on Linux.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> 8 bit characters in file/link names. 
> 
> As briefly as possible: libarchive can't translate the names to utf8 
> because msbtowcs on linux wont work unless LC_CTYPE is set appropriately.

I still don't see why the packages have to use UTF8 file names though.
It seems an arbitary and unnecessary choice.

Joerg