Bug#214028: localedef, LSB 1.3 conformance, and Debian standard utilities
At 09 Oct 2003 22:50:17 -0700,
Paul Eggert wrote:
> barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:
>
> > Some users run in POSIX mode (see #185924), but Debian glibc comes
> > with a locale-gen script which is a frontend to localedef.
> > In this script, POSIXLY_CORRECT is unset (see #206784), so our
> > users should not be affected by the requested change.
>
> Some news: Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org> reports in a email to
> <206210@bugs.debian.org> that the LSB Specification Authority met
> yesterday and agreed that for LSB 1.3 the affected utilities need not
> interpret sequences of multibyte characters. This sounds like a
> waiver to me, and if so, the change to localedef isn't needed right
> now. Sorry about the false alarm (though in my defense it was still a
> real alarm when I submitted 214028).
Excellent. Thanks for your work for LSB 1.3 issue. Recently Jeff
Licquia is working for LSB 2.0 certification, and I think your patch
is not needed these days. Could I close this bug?
Regards,
-- gotom
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