Re: r4943 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . patches/localedata
Le 13/09/2011 16:53, Colin Watson a écrit :
> 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?
Yes similar problems have already been reported. This change has been
done as a C locale should not have a collation order. Unfortunately it
seems not easy to create such a locale, so the current plan is to drop
the C.UTF-8 locale until a solution is found.
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