Bug#114461: gettext: there is no way to control where message catalogs are found at run time (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I received this from the Debian Bug System.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:43:33 -0700
From: Zack Weinberg <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: #114461: gettext: there is no way to control where message
    catalogs are found at run time

Package: gettext
Version: 0.10.40-1
Severity: normal

Unlike all other aspects of locale information, message catalogs are
found only in the location compiled into the binary.  Environment
variables such as LOCPATH do not affect the search.

The gettext command honors a TEXTDOMAINDIR environment variable, but
nothing else does.  It would be best, in my opinion, if LOCPATH worked
as it does for other locale information.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux taltos 2.2.20-pre3-pipefix #1 Wed Aug 1 14:05:04 PDT 2001 
i686 unknown

Versions of the packages gettext depends on:
ii  gettext-base   0.10.40-1      GNU Internationalization utilities for the b
ii  libc6          2.2.4-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone