State of libc-locale?

[Jeff Law]

On 04/04/2012 02:46 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Looking at the libc-locale archives and the many open bugs regarding
> locales: Is anybody still taking care of the locales?
Not that I've seen.  I've been sending locale fixes to libc-locale and 
monitoring specific bugs and it doesn't appear anyone is approving 
changes, even for changes where the original locale author has said a 
particular change is desirable.

During my research I've found numerous complaints about locale support; 
mostly around lack of response from the maintainers and some complaints 
about the doc requirements.  I think the first is the easiest problem to 
resolve, it seems to me the second is more controversial.


It's clearly a source of divergence between the official glibc and what 
we're using in Fedora and ultimately Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  We 
(Fedora/Red Hat hat on) simply can't stand still on fixing bugs because 
the official maintainers are unresponsive.


Jeff