On 2017-02-06 00:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (2017-02-06): > > Well this kind of patch is not mergeable upstream, so we will have to > > keep it forever. > > Or just for stretch given the following points? No, I don't think the freeze is an excuse for fixing bugs the wrong way. > > What would be wrong in using a supported value for the debian-installer > > locale? It should only be a dozen of lines to change. > > A couple of things: > 1. I don't know anything about locales. Understandable. > 2. Nobody moved a finger on this RC bug for months, so I'm not sure we > have anyone else able/willing to fix this. Or maybe people able/willing to fix this were not aware of the bug? > 3. The freeze is here and I'm not too thrilled about changing code/data > I don't have a clue about. These strings only changes LC_IDENTIFICATION, so there is no risk to replace them by "i18n:2012". We have done that for a few additional locales we have in the glibc, including for the C.UTF-8 locale [1]. If you don't want to fix that yourself, I can just do the upload. Aurelien [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?id=12fabca5b6fccdf47b3f147a40d00f9149ef345a -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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