Bug#442258: locales: locale.alias regression regarding et_EE

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:17:43PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.6.1-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I upgraded to locales 2.6.1-3 and it changes /etc/default/locales. Among
> the changes is the following one:
> -eesti          et_EE.ISO-8859-15
> -estonian       et_EE.ISO-8859-15
> +eesti          et_EE.ISO-8859-1
> +estonian       et_EE.ISO-8859-1
> 
> This is clearly wrong, ISO-8859-15 is the 8-bit locale that is official
> standard here. Historically a modified 8859-1 was used (adding scaron
> and zcaron like in 8859-15) but this was more than 10 years ago and since
> Debian does not use the hacked 8859-1, we should not point any Estonian
> language locale to the 8859-1 charset. Please revert this chunk.
> 

I doubt this is a regression because estonian was already binded to
et_EE.ISO-8859-1 in glibc 2.3.6. I guess it was actually a local change
you made on your system.

Anyway that will be fixed in next upload.

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