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Bug#965323: postinst script deletes custom locales

From Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.glibc
Subject Bug#965323: postinst script deletes custom locales
Date 2020-07-29 12:40 +0200
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On 2020-07-27 08:26, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Can't be worse than not having the locale at all. Not to mention that there is
> an option --posix to assure compatibility to POSIX.1-2008, AFAICT.

This option doesn't change the output format which is glibc specific. It
only control the source format, which is defined by POSIX.

> If there are
> incompatible changes, then its my job to worry about recreating the custom locales.

This is how *you* consider that. Most users that encounter broken
locales just report a bug.

> Since the postinst builds just a subset of all locales and since it even maintains
> a list about it, I would suggest to erase and rebuild only these locales.

This is not so easy as the list evolve from version to version.

Regards
Aurelien

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Bug#965323: postinst script deletes custom locales Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> - 2020-07-19 16:00 +0200
  Bug#965323: postinst script deletes custom locales Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> - 2020-07-19 18:40 +0200
  Bug#965323: postinst script deletes custom locales Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2020-07-29 11:40 +0200
    Bug#965323: postinst script deletes custom locales Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> - 2020-07-29 12:40 +0200

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