Subject: [bug#67507] [PATCH v2 0/2] Using the right locales on GNU/Hurd

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:42:07 +0000

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is an updated version of Janneke's patches
> in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66472> combined with
> Christopher's patch from <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67507>.
> Team work!
>
> This should fix the infamous dependency cycle introduced
> in 95ea1277ae2ebd278bdb51a7887f5ba1116fbc64 *and* ensure
> the right version of glibc locale data is used throughout.

These changes look good to me.

For the data service instances, it would be good to fix the infinite
loop issue sooner rather than later. For affected revisions, I think the
data service is effectively waiting until the relevant processes run out
of memory and crash, and this is slowing down processing revisions.