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Re: Consensus: Locale format may change from release to release?
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:36:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: Consensus: Locale format may change from release to release?
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On 10/13/2015 04:03 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> (2) Locales should be recompiled for the glibc that is about to run.
> Any old compiled locales cannot be considered safe to load with
> the new glibc. There is no guarantee, even between point releases
> that the binary format remains compatible. This includes recompiling
> the locale-archive and any other binary locales.
I wonder if it helped distributions if we change the locale archive name
every time we change the format. Then for system-provided locales,
there is less risk of picking up one with an incompatible format.
Florian