Bug 569077

Summary:	Remove broken externalized strings
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Carsten Hammer <carsten.hammer>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.18
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui/+/172642 https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui/+/172643 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296836
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Carsten Hammer

2020-11-23 14:05:37 EST

The tooling in jdt.ui Source->Find broken externalized Strings finds a lot of unused(?) strings. Some of them are definitely unused but have been restored 10 years ago because a customer made use of it (see Bug 296836). I guess today is the time to finally remove them. Others might be still used but the tool is not smart enough to see it with current bundle visibility and dependency.

Some tests are failing now and I suspect responsible are some strings that should not be removed. Maybe moving them to another bundle helps to cleanup?

Comment 1 Carsten Hammer

2021-11-05 15:58:18 EDT

It looks like jdt is violating for years the requirements for being part of the simultaneus release, doesn‘t it
https://wiki.eclipse.org/SimRel/Simultaneous_Release_Requirements/Appendix#Excel_in_National_Language_support

Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2023-10-27 10:40:28 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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