Bug#142072: acknowledged by developer (Re: libc6: pre Euro currencies obseleted too soon)
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:38:19AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:02:29 +0200,
> Denis Barbier wrote:
[...]
> The one example (thus LSB test suite) makes its own locale, but DEM is
> not included in iso-4217,
Err no, Ulrich Drepper removed it from iso-4217.def, but as reported in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/debian-glibc-200303/msg00626.html
it is mentioned in last official ISO 4217.
> so one cannot create the specific locale.
> But apparently this issue is appeared in LSB test suite, because
> almost applications do not make its own locale. So this wishlist is
> for (maybe only) the LSB test suite.
Quoting original bugreport (from Christopher Yeoh)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/debian-glibc-200303/msg00622.html
Although Euro currency symbol migration may be complete, many
people have historical data which uses the old currencies. I
imagine this support will be required for many years. This is
one feature that is required for Debian to be LSB compliant.
IMO main point was the first argument, last sentence was put there in
order to enforce it. Unfortunately you focused on the latter.
Let's say it again:
* If iso-4217.def is shipped as is, users can't define their own
locales with pre-Euro currencies if they need to (e.g. to process
old data).
* If iso-4217.def is patched to reinstate old currencies (and thus
follow ISO 4217), they can and it is absolutely harmless.
So why is it not possible?
> Now back to my post:
>
> At Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:29:34 +0900,
> GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > BTW, do you know the status of draft version of the next coming
> > ISO-4217 (ISO-4217:2003 or so)? I think they will update the table in
> > the next version.
>
> I would like to know whether the next ISO-4217 have DEM or not.
You wrote in this thread:
The principle is the real world requirement, not the standard
conformance. Blind follower might not be always good result. Be not
the standard fundamentalism.
Did you change your mind? ;)
> If DEM is in draft, they plan to consider obsolete int_curr_symbols...
> If not, this kind of consideration is of no use.
Re-read
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/debian-glibc-200303/msg00626.html
Christopher Yeoh explained that there are 3 tables, one being for
obsolete currencies. But there is no need for our libc to deal with
them in a special manner! This bugreport only asks that iso-4217.def
contains all tables.
Denis
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