Bug#555408: private locale copy is never updated
Piotr Engelking <inkerman42@gmail.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
>> Do you think the man-db warning results would ever change based on
>> things that would change about the locale, particularly at this point
>> in the maturity of en_US.UTF-8? It seems unlikely to me on first
>> glance.
> en_US.UTF-8 certainly does change from time to time, for an example to
> add new characters to the LC_CTYPE character classes when new Unicode
> versions are released. I do not know if these changes would affect the
> man-db warnings, but the above changelog entry suggests that lintian may
> plan to use its private locale copy for other purposes as well.
Nope, that's all we're using it for. If we had a C.UTF-8 locale, we'd use
that instead; we just need *some* UTF-8 locale for man-db and its
utilities to not explode.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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