Missing l10n and incomplete verification

[Charlie Brady <charlieb-rpm e-smith com>]

I would expect "rpm -V foo" to tell me about missing files. But it doesn't 
seem to. Is this expected behaviour? 

If it is intended for localisation files to be conditionally installed, 
what conditions control whether they are installed or not?

bash-2.05# rpm -q lynx
lynx-2.8.4-17
bash-2.05# rpm -qV lynx
lynx-2.8.4-17
bash-2.05# ls -l /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       124902 Jul 31  2001 
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
bash-2.05# rpm -V lynx
S.5....T c /etc/lynx.cfg
bash-2.05# rpm -ql lynx | grep locale
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
bash-2.05# rpm -V
rpmv: no arguments given for verify
bash-2.05# rpm -v
RPM version 4.0.4
Copyright (C) 1998-2000 - Red Hat, Inc.
This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

Usage: rpm {--help}
       rpm {--version}
bash-2.05# 

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Charlie Brady                         charlieb@e-smith.com
Lead Product Developer
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