Re: LSB status of sarge?

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:27:55AM -0400, you wrote:
> I'm still pissed about the LSB tests mandating multibyte support when
> POSIX requires multibyte support only if you claim support for multibyte
> locales. (I.e., we should be able to avoid this problem by saying that
> we're not supporting multibyte locales for LSB purposes in sarge.) Last
> I heard someone was supposed to issue a clarification on that issue.

Ah, I found a copy of it at the bottom of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=206210

I guess that means we don't need to worry about coreutils and diffutils
for lsb 1.3 compliance? As far as users go, yeah, they're going to have
some problems with multibyte characters. I don't have a solution to
that.

Mike Stone