Bug#1060288: locales: Please allow selection of C.UTF-8 when (re)configuring locales

[Axel Scheepers <axel.scheepers76@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 11:54 PM Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> The problem is that you end-up with two C.UTF-8 locales on the system.
> The one generated and the one provided by libc6. Normally that should
> work fine, but there is no 100% guarantee that the C.UTF-8 working is
> working fine during a major upgrade, between the time libc6 and locales
> are unpacked.

Ah ok I understand, thanks for explaining.

> I have just implemented that in git, the current behaviour is a
> left-over from before the time C.UTF-8 existed.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Axel Scheepers