ABI changes still pending for glibc 2.32?

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Jul 10 20:39:22 GMT 2020


On 7/10/20 8:59 AM, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 8. Juli 2020, 22:56:12 EEST schrieb Carlos O'Donell:
>>
>> The first report of the bug I saw was filed 2020-05-03:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1830623
>>
> 
>>
>> This is your choice. I don't call it "silly" because it's a real bug and an
>> adjustment to locale data to better suit those using _DATE_FMT via
>> _nl_langinfo().
>>
> 
> Yeah there was maybe my non-US bias involved. 
> 
> We did get some report on it, but I discarded that because I saw the change as 
> obvious cleanup (on the same level as the regular header fixing, "well it 
> breaks something but we'll have to do it one day").
> 
> Then again, in a wider sense from that perspective probably "going metric" 
> would also be a valid bug fix... :D

We have to ask our users :-)
 
> Anyway, looking forward to 2.32 and thanks for your work!

Thank you. I take it this means you are OK with the plan going forward.

I have review from Florian so I'll probably push the en_US fix next
week and give Rafal or Mike time to comment.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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