On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:41:20PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > Steve Langasek, le Wed 29 Jul 2009 19:01:57 +0200, a écrit :
> > > the only requirement is that any files shipped there are identical
> > > between packages of the same version for multiple architectures.
> [Samuel Thibault]
> > That's however not true for .mo files, for endianness, typically.
> So what does this mean for /usr/share/locale and multiarch? Do we need
> to move to /usr/lib/{gnu-type}/locale?
My understanding is that .mo files include an endianness tag, so files of
either endianness can be loaded on any system. It might be simpler to pick
a format to use for multiarch packages, so that these can continue to be
shipped in the library package.
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