Consensus: Locale format may change from release to release?

[Florian Weimer]

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