Bug#503735: gnome-chess: menus only work in English language locales

[Philipp Kern]

severity 503735 grave

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:35:15PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 10:05:04 Peter De Wachter wrote:
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > The File/New/Programs and the File/New/Servers menus don't work in
> > non-English locales. This makes it impossible to play against the
> > computer or on a chess server.
> While I can understand your desire for non-en locales, that fact that the 
> menus work in English means that this RC bug should be classified as:
> 
> severity important: has a major effect on the usability of a package, without 
> rendering it completely unusable to everyone
> 
> As the package isn't unusable for English locale users.

Did you even try it?  I get failed assertions in the console and the
program does neither work with LANG=C nor LC_ALL=C for me.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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