Query about glibc/localedata/CHECKSUMS

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 01/31/2013 10:01 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> On 01/29/2013 05:34 PM, Chris Leonard wrote:
>>> Just checking in again.  Can anyone describe the current usage of the
>>> CHECKSUMS file?
>>
>> I'm not aware of any usage. Roland, it seems you introduced it - do you
>> remember anything?
>
> I have no recollections about this file and I can't even deduce now why you
> think it was me that added it (not that this in any way means that I did not).

 From localedata/ChangeLog:
2002-12-03  Roland McGrath  <roland@redhat.com>

         * charmaps/CP1125: New file.
         * CHECKSUMS: Add it.

>> Otherwise let's remove it...
>
> I can't see what it's possibly buying us.  It's certainly easy to
> regenerate the file in the future if we find a reason to want it.
>
> Has anyone asked on the libc-locales@sourceware.org list?
> I'm not on that list, and have no idea if there is any activity there.

Looking at the archives, there's no activity, just bug reports

Ok, I'll remove it tomorrow,
Andreas
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