Re: glib2.0 2.64.6-1 (TEST)

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 26/07/2023 15:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  3 15:49, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 02/07/2023 15:30, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>
>>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> * libglib2.0_0-2.64.6-1
>>> * libglib2.0-devel-2.64.6-1
>>> * libglib2.0-doc-2.64.6-1
>>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> There are many test-suite failures, however, as far as I can tell, they
>>> are not regressions, so this should work as well as it ever did.
>>
>> At least some of these test failures are due to bugs or shortcomings in the
>> Cygwin DLL. In an ideal world, I'd have the time and motivation to
>> investigate them all, but here's a brief summary of the few I looked into
>> ...
>>
>> gdatetime: The _NL_CTYPE_OUTDIGITx_MB constants for nl_langinfo aren't
>> defined (possibly because we don't have the required information, e.g. to
>> produce Persian (as opposed to Arabic) digit characters in the fa_IR.utf-8
>> locale)
> 
> Uhm... we actually have this information.  Only, unfortunately I screwed
> up the names:
> 
>    _NL_CTYPE_OUTDIGITSx_MB
> 
> instead of
> 
>    _NL_CTYPE_OUTDIGITx_MB
> 
> D'oh.
> 
> Do you think we need the wrong names for backward compat?  Theoretically
> they should never have been used...

A brief web search only finds the wrong names in the cygwin source code, 
so yeah, I'd say just fix it.