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Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]

From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>, TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki at linet dot gr dot jp>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:58:19 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
References: <201902080841.AA04237@tamuki.linet.gr.jp> <201902150741.AA04242@tamuki.linet.gr.jp> <1066494061.817390.1550532456414@poczta.nazwa.pl> <56904f5e-58bc-9de2-92e4-b61eb3f6587d@redhat.com> <937240199.833707.1550701768112@poczta.nazwa.pl> <b063baff-d4e8-8c6a-59d0-b2de3fc7b4a2@redhat.com> <123606416.493388.1550792944299@poczta.nazwa.pl>

On 2/21/19 6:49 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> OK, I understand this and I will not insist on backporting to multiple
> stable branches.  However, I would like to suggest backporting to 2.29
> because:
> 
> * it has been released only recently and hopefully has not yet reached many
>   production systems,
> * if any sorting using the Japanese calendar exists it is broken because
>   of this bug already,
> * sorting dates by strftime() to Japanese calendar does not look to me
>   as a good idea at all.

All good reasons. I think backporting to 2.29 is reasonable, conservative,
and serves downstream distributions which are only just adopting 2.29.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

References:
- [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
  - From: TAMUKI Shoichi
- Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
  - From: TAMUKI Shoichi
- Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
  - From: Rafal Luzynski
- Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
  - From: Carlos O'Donell
- Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
  - From: Rafal Luzynski
- Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
  - From: Carlos O'Donell
- Re: [PATCH] ja_JP locale: Fix the offset in era-string for Taisho gan-nen [BZ #24162]
  - From: Rafal Luzynski

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