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Core updates broken

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 29537 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#29537: Core updates broken
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 19:15:23 +0100

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It seems, that we have a breakage in current core-updates. m4, gettext, and
>> at least a few other packages fail to build.
>
> Hello!
>
> The problem is that the glibc version string is used a couple of places
> to determine where locales are found.
>
> The attached patch fixes it, though I'm not sure if it's the best
> approach.  Thoughts?

Thank you.

I find it a little ugly to replace the exact version string with only
the major+minor version substring.  Why can’t we use the full version
string?

Do you mean that other packages (such as m4, gettext, etc) compare
against only the major+minor substring of glibc?  If that is so, I think
this patch is acceptable as we cannot possibly patch all other packages
to use the full version string.

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Ricardo

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