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diff --git a/tags/i/incorrect-locale-code.tag b/tags/i/incorrect-locale-code.tag new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4cdb53 --- /dev/null +++ b/tags/i/incorrect-locale-code.tag @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Tag: incorrect-locale-code +Severity: warning +Check: files/locales +Explanation: The package appears to ship locales for a language but uses an + incorrect locale code as a subdirectory of <code>/usr/share/locale</code>. + This usually results in users of the intended target language not + finding the locale. The language codes used in the locale directories + are those from the ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 standards, not those + usually used as TLDs (which are from the ISO 3166 standard). + . + When both standards define a language code for a given language, the + ISO 639-1 code should be used (i.e. the two lettered code). + . + Lintian only knows about some commonly-mistaken set of incorrect + locale codes. |