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

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 01:58:00 GMT 2019


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.



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