New translation for Ubuntu

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 6 16:08:34 UTC 2017


On 2017-06-06 17:32, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 05:03:25PM +0200, Danilo Ĺ egan wrote:
>> Note that it may be hard to get a locale into GNU libc,
> 
> Is this still the case?  glibc's maintenance is a lot more
> functional and welcoming now than when you last dealt with it, I
> suspect ...

I'd say that the responsiveness of the localedata maintainers goes up 
and down over time. It may have improved, but if you are unlucky it may 
take 'forever'.

The latest example I'm aware of is <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1658068>. 
Patch posted upstream 6 months ago, and still not even a response. Bad.

> (It's usually best to get things as far upstream as possible.)

Indeed, and in any case trying to get a new locale accepted by glibc 
should always be step #1. Patching locales in Debian and/or Ubuntu 
should be a last resort.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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