DJ Lucas wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Noted in DJ's book (I'll continue to refer to it as that >> even though his book is what will be SVN, he's the one >> that got all this stuff going) that we've dropped the >> i18n patch for Coreutils. IIRC, upstream won't touch it, >> and I think I remember there may have been a discussion >> about it here, but I want to revisit it to ensure that >> we're all good dropping it and/or keeping it. >> >> Alexander may have some good info here, as others may >> also, but I want to ensure the community is agreed as to >> the direction we take. >> >> I'm not an i18n person, so I really cannot contribute >> anything worthwhile other than bringing it up here. >> >> I'm going to update Coreutils to 6.12 without the patch >> and we can always add it if we determine it should be >> there. I simply don't know if it should or should not be. >> >> > That patch has been buggy in the past. The current upstream version of > it does not apply to raw Coreutils-6.12, and it has been rejected by > upstream in the past. While I can certainly munge that patch into > applying, I do not have any reliable way to test the changes other than > witnessing no change. > Must have been more than 2 months and 2 weeks since I tested it. The current patch applies (with fuzz and offset). It does not build in the host system (BLFS-6.3) however. Again, I'll drop it in when this one is done and run through the tests that Alexander posted. FYI, the first test confirmed that the first sed in GLibC was correctly removed.
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