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Re: pre-approval for glibc/2.3.6.ds1-13etch9 (stable)



On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:54:37PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> [Aurelien Jarno]
> > I have reported the bugs upstream, and made a new patch for stable.
> > Please find it below. I'll send the unstable patch in a separate
> > mail.
> >
> > Is it ok to upload such a change in stable?
> 
> I doubt these patches will be accepted upstream, as they change the
> behaviour of existing locales.  I would recommend creating new locales

The patch from Slovenia actually comes from upstream, so such patches
will be accepted.

> with xx_YY@euro names like the other locales with euro, as this is
> most likely the way it will be implemented upstream.
> 
> See br_FR@euro for an example.

Those locales have been done at the time where UTF-8 was not commonly
used, and two version where necessary depending if you have switch to
ISO-8859-15 from ISO-8859-1 or not.

This is not necessary anymore.

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