Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (2017-02-06): > 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. If you're certain this can't generate any regressions in d-i, sure, please go ahead. KiBi.
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