Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Noted in DJ's book (I'll continue to refer to it as that > even though his book is what will be SVN, he's the one > that got all this stuff going) that we've dropped the > i18n patch for Coreutils. IIRC, upstream won't touch it, > and I think I remember there may have been a discussion > about it here, but I want to revisit it to ensure that > we're all good dropping it and/or keeping it. > > Alexander may have some good info here, as others may > also, but I want to ensure the community is agreed as to > the direction we take. > > I'm not an i18n person, so I really cannot contribute > anything worthwhile other than bringing it up here. > > I'm going to update Coreutils to 6.12 without the patch > and we can always add it if we determine it should be > there. I simply don't know if it should or should not be. > That patch has been buggy in the past. The current upstream version of it does not apply to raw Coreutils-6.12, and it has been rejected by upstream in the past. While I can certainly munge that patch into applying, I do not have any reliable way to test the changes other than witnessing no change.
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