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That's the model that makes the most sense to me -- ie, CLDR as a strong supporting argument for a change. Ideally we'd get to a point where any differences between glibc and CLDR are minimal and documented.Indeed. I still don't feel comfortable with blindly updating data from CLDR (since I'm not very familiar with the repository and its policies yet), but given its wide userbase I see nothing wrong with taking CLDR reference as a *very* strong supporting argument for a change.
The concern expressed to me (privately) is the two locale databases have significantly different formats for their data, thus consolidating down to a single database may require a nontrivial amount of work (assuming we could get to the point where everyone agreed on all the underlying data).
In very long term IMHO it would be sensible to slowly reduce differences to CLDR (by appropriate changes on both sides) and finally switch to CLDR providing locale data. Avoiding two redundant databases seems even more appropriate given the recent legal opinion that locale data are not copyrighted and therefore there are no licencing and philosophical (freedom) considerations here.
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