[arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem-2009.11-1

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 19:29, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>> Am Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:02:06 +1000
>> schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>>
>>
>>> * profile
>>> Remove LC_COLLATE=C from the default /etc/profile
>>> Apparently this is not necessary and has been tested for a while.
>>> If this causes regex-based scripts to fail, we should add
>>> LC_COLLATE=C to those scripts themselves.
>>> See FS#15250
>>
>> This makes claws-mail folder sort order changing. Now my mailing list
>> folders are strictly sorted by the starting letter and no more first
>> the ones with capital letters.
>>
>> Is this wanted?
>
> Only LC_COLLATE=C is case sensitive AFAIK.
> And yes, removing LC_COLLATE=C from the default /etc/profile is wanted
> (I mean it is removed not because it is unnecessary).
>
> People that prefer LC_COLLATE=C may add it back to their profiles.

As a side note, it does seem that we are one of the few distros (if
any others) that still did this. Ubuntu and CentOS didn't override it
last I looked (see ordering of ls output).

-Dan