Bug 16861

Summary:	gitk not starting some language (eg: russian)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Nikita Krupenko <krnekit>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	luigiwalser, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	git-2.6.1-1.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Nikita Krupenko 2015-09-30 15:31:55 CEST

After updating to git 2.6 I cannot start gitk. It gives the following error:

Error in startup script: bad menu entry index "Ð ÐµÐ´Ð°ÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°ÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ..."
    while executing
".bar.view entryconf [mca "Edit view..."] -state normal"
    invoked from within
"if {$cmdline_files ne {} || $revtreeargs ne {} || $revtreeargscmd ne {}} {
    # create a view for the files/dirs specified on the command line
    se..."
    (file "/bin/gitk" line 12442)

I have locale ru_UA.UTF-8. If I start gitk with LANG=C, it works

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-30 15:37:09 CEST

Assigning to maintainer.

Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-01 09:46:18 CEST

It works ok with eg: French, so the bug is likely a bogus Russian translation

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Summary: gitk not starting with non-English language => gitk not starting some language (eg: russian)

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-09 09:45:08 CEST

With 2.6.1, this now also affects French language... :-(

Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-09 09:47:10 CEST

CC: (none) => luigiwalser
Source RPM: git-2.6.0-1.mga6.src.rpm => git-2.6.1-1.mga6.src.rpm

Comment 4 David Walser 2015-10-09 14:53:32 CEST

Nothing we can do about it except update to the next git version when it's available.  Upstream needs to be made aware of this if they aren't already.

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-09 15:03:41 CEST

Well, we can patch po/* ...

Comment 6 David Walser 2015-10-09 15:05:47 CEST

We have no business getting into maintaining the translations ourselves, and that'll make maintaining/updating the package impossible.  Or, more realistically, as soon as the po patches don't apply to a newer version, they'll be dropped.

Anyone is free to update the translations and submit them upstream, however.

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-09 15:55:00 CEST

We can temporary drop the bogus strings if it prevents the program to start.
They're many reports on the net with quite some languages affected now

Comment 8 David Walser 2015-10-09 15:56:16 CEST

Does this breakage affect git 2.3.10 also (Mageia 5 updates_testing)?

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2016-01-15 10:38:02 CET

As of 2.7.0, this is fixed for french language at least

Comment 10 David Walser 2016-08-09 23:43:32 CEST

Is this bug still valid?

Comment 11 Nikita Krupenko 2016-08-09 23:45:26 CEST

It works now.

Comment 12 David Walser 2016-08-09 23:54:14 CEST

Thanks.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED