Re: r4943 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . patches/localedata

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 05:01:07PM +0000, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Modified:
>    glibc-package/trunk/debian/changelog
>    glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/localedata/locale-C.diff
> Log:
>   * debian/patches/localedata/locale-C.diff: Don't include ISO14651
>     collation rules in C.UTF-8 locale.

I'm curious what the reason for this was.  It seems to be implicated in
this apt crash in Ubuntu:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848907

(apt didn't change in the relevant time period; eglibc seems to be the
only other reasonable suspect.)

I can reproduce the same crash in Debian unstable, with:

  sudo LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt-get update

Now, Michael thinks that this is probably an apt bug too, and he's
working on fixing it; but I'm curious as to the rationale for this
change, since I don't know how many other packages might be affected by
similar problems, and what would go wrong if we backed it out?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]