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

[Peter De Wachter]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:02:02 +0100
Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

But issues which "[make] the package in question unusable by most or
all users" are severity grave. I'd argue most users (certainly most
desktop users) don't use an English locale, as most people don't use
English as their native language. But I admit there's a fuzzy area
between important and grave.

> 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.

That's probably #472866.

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Peter De Wachter