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French locale gets overhauled in archinstall
By RepoJournal · Filed · About Arch Linux · Composed from the cited sources · methodology
archinstall cleans house as a 416-string French translation refresh lands, but the real story is what it signals for the installer's stability.
archinstall shipped a major French localization cleanup [1][2], removing 326 obsolete strings while adding 90 new ones to sync the locale with current software strings. This is the kind of maintenance that keeps the installer usable for a growing non-English audience, and it lands alongside routine package bumps across the repos: python-zope-security hit 8.4-1 in extra [3], pdfio moved to 1.6.5-1 in testing [4], and webrtc-audio-processing reached 2.1-9 in staging [5]. The archinstall devs also kept tooling fresh, with pre-commit hooks for mypy [6] and ruff [7] updated to patched versions. Over in buildbtw, a refactor extracts GitLab client initialization into its own function [9], a small but sensible cleanup that merged cleanly [8]. With 53 commits and 3 PRs across the stack, nothing here screams emergency, but the French translation work is the one that makes users' lives better directly.
Action items
- → Review the French translation refresh for any strings you depend on in archinstall archlinux/archinstall [monitor]
- → Update pdfio and webrtc-audio-processing from testing/staging when they stabilize archlinux/state [plan]
- → Apply pre-commit hook updates in archinstall to keep linting current archlinux/archinstall [plan]
References
- [1] Update French translation ↗ archlinux/archinstall
- [2] Update French translation (#4717) ↗ archlinux/archinstall
- [3] update python-zope-security to 8.4-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
- [4] update pdfio to 1.6.5-1 in extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
- [5] update webrtc-audio-processing to 2.1-9 in extra-staging-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
- [6] Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v2.3.1 ↗ archlinux/archinstall
- [7] Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.16.3 ↗ archlinux/archinstall
- [8] Merge branch 'extract-function-for-initializing-gitlab-client' into 'main' ↗ archlinux/buildbtw
- [9] Extract function for initializing gitlab client ↗ archlinux/buildbtw
