On 12/5/24 6:28 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > We could also consider adding explicit documentation in Policy that > "Packages must not require the existence of any files in > /usr/share/locale/ in order to function in a C or C.UTF-8 locale.", > which would make it explicit that sysadmins can use things like dpkg > exclusions to omit all of /usr/share/locale when building tiny images. > That might reduce the pressure on packagers to split out -l10n- > packages.
I might misremember but I don't think there's a guarantee that C is actually English, no? I.e. it would be legit for a program to output in French or Chinese in the C.UTF-8 locale and have a translation to English? Kind regards Philipp Kern
