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Hello,

Apologies for the delayed announcement but as of
glibc-2.34.9000-13.fc35, the glibc package has been split to create a
new package glibc-gconv-extra to hold most converter modules into a
separate package.  The common converters such as those for UTF-*,
ISO8859-1, ISO8859-15 and CP1252 remain in the core package. This
change allows users that do not have use for the extra modules to save
space as well as harden their systems; many of the infrequently used
modules have historically had bugs with security impact.

glibc-gconv-extra is recommended by glibc, so a regular update or
default installation should pull in glibc-gconv-extra and there should
be no noticeable change unless a user explicitly removes
glibc-gconv-extra at some point.

One user visible problem we discovered[1][2] was that buildroots do
not install weak dependencies because of which glibc-gconv-extra goes
missing from them.  This may result in testing failures when
applications try to test uncommon character set conversions.  The fix
to get that working again is to add a build dependency on
glibc-gconv-extra.

Please file bugs against glibc for any other issues you come across in
charset conversions due to this split.  We'll be happy to help resolve
them.

Siddhesh

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973663
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974466
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