[arch-dev-public] coreutils - remove i18n patch?
Hi, The coreutils-i18n patch we currently use adds some extra support for multibyte characters. However, the patch is entirely unsupported upstream. I currently rely on the Fedora maintainer to fix any issues that are found and to update it for each release. He also finds that patch a nightmare. So the question is, should we remove that patch? It is not acceptable by the usual Arch patching rules given it is not supported upstream, but it does provide better multibytle locale support (subject to it working...). Removing the patch will probably result in a few regressions with multibyte locales, but we can then take those issues upstream. Any opinions on this? Allan
On 06/12/2010 09:13 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
Hi,
The coreutils-i18n patch we currently use adds some extra support for multibyte characters. However, the patch is entirely unsupported upstream. I currently rely on the Fedora maintainer to fix any issues that are found and to update it for each release. He also finds that patch a nightmare.
So the question is, should we remove that patch? It is not acceptable by the usual Arch patching rules given it is not supported upstream, but it does provide better multibytle locale support (subject to it working...). Removing the patch will probably result in a few regressions with multibyte locales, but we can then take those issues upstream.
Any opinions on this?
Allan
imo i think we should drop it and take this issue upstream. -- Ionuț
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:32:36 +0300, Ionuț Bîru <biru.ionut@gmail.com> wrote:
imo i think we should drop it and take this issue upstream.
Correct. Which are the issues we are talking about btw? -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
On 12/06/10 21:23, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:32:36 +0300, Ionuț Bîru<biru.ionut@gmail.com> wrote:
imo i think we should drop it and take this issue upstream.
Correct. Which are the issues we are talking about btw?
I have a suspicion that sorting of multi-byte locals may not be 100% but I really do not know... I inherited the package with that patch already in it. Allan
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:34:19 +1000, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 12/06/10 21:23, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:32:36 +0300, Ionuț Bîru<biru.ionut@gmail.com> wrote:
imo i think we should drop it and take this issue upstream.
Correct. Which are the issues we are talking about btw?
I have a suspicion that sorting of multi-byte locals may not be 100% but
I really do not know... I inherited the package with that patch already
in it.
Allan
I would suggest to remove the patch and put it into testing then. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
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Allan McRae
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Ionuț Bîru
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Pierre Schmitz