On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 16:08 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:37:07AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Aurelien Jarno, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 19:16:40 +0200, a écrit :
> > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 14:52:39 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > > There were no objections to having a UTF-8 locale installed and
> > > > > available by default, just to it *being* the default. Taking this
> > > > > first small step is IMO important to do, preferably for squeeze if
> > > > > possible. Since it's a tiny one-liner change, this should be no
> > > > > trouble in getting this done.
> > > >
> > > > I believe so too, I just didn't want to push it too much, but yes, I
> > > > believe that's something that shouldn't break Squeeze at all.
> > >
> > > That's not something allowed anymore at this period of the freeze, you
> > > will have to get an exception from the release team first.
> >
> > Ok. I don't feel any urgency so I won't ask for it myself.
>
> Well, the big advantage to have it in squeeze is that this allows squeeze+1
> to rely on
> it without worrying with partial upgrades.
>
> For me, the fact that d-i already provides it is a major point in favor of
> C.UTF-8, because
> this show that this actually work and is useful.
I agree. I think that the impact of having a guaranteed UTF-8 locale
available is only positive. It may be that nothing presently depends on
it, but for that very reason it should be fine to promote to the release
team for a freeze exception.
Regards,
Andrew McMillan.
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