From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 81848 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2016 20:18:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 81766 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jun 2016 20:18:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=country, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: mail-qg0-f44.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:organization :message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hxpJ9i2PhZD1uOCZJNni1iU1jzKEOZrbwdLHTsaOvIw=; b=T5DWrDL9DWdCXvZXJX7hKfU8v6sX9zJJdN6FRDY9SrIMjE73SOKs55x+I+ebNzO/ix +0YyUvNlL1ZqI6eq+XfvKj/MDVMWkuLBmKZHMIgglBncGuD4hex5vQvxtM32jnK3oTod 8069mIcKqOvdMyI4q9pplFPJ6CZXeKLxo160Msw84oc/Po1kdUSnzN6vCNZhQ2epq8JL GTqO54dd2wexDzesxPWPSuX0OGkUXP2d4wN52apZxyfTupcLH0F27NQdzy7+QvWJoxFa qcuPcdn/SQN6MIBWe+gkp7NccYGPIeMykCt50Z2ly89i0hNmMIbjzmlCtn6ahRGEqeJB LYCg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKgF7OpYNZfHXMuXdh2ehkDGBCzPWp1KJVDJWJxgHTJ1R7tYuTJ2fOaLt3+vojzvCnq X-Received: by 10.140.98.38 with SMTP id n35mr632397qge.22.1466021888643; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] localedata: i18napis: update LC_ADDRESS.country_post To: keld@keldix.com, Florian Weimer , libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <1465600030-31896-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <54a860f1-81c7-fe49-7ac9-99f3baebf2da@redhat.com> <20160611072713.GL4053@vapier.lan> <20160611141740.GO4053@vapier.lan> <20160615090038.GA24000@www5.open-std.org> <20160615155053.GT4053@vapier.lan> From: Carlos O'Donell Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160615155053.GT4053@vapier.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2016-06/txt/msg00603.txt.bz2 On 06/15/2016 11:50 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > what exactly is the advantage to us trying to pick up this work ? > all i see is downsides and wasted effort on APIs that no one will > use. and i have the history of the glibc project to show that very > few (if any one) actually cares to do all the work in keeping the > data and API fresh. it's been 17 years since these were added to > glibc and we've pretty much gone nowhere since. My inclination would be to do one final update of LC_ADDRESS.country_post to use the full country name in English and in caps from libaddressinput. At the same time a comment should be added to every such entry that the data is obsolete and instead that libaddressinput should be used for more detailed information. While a new GNU API for getting the country post for an arbitrary target locale might be useful, it's orthogonal to this discussion, and for now should not block Mike's cleanup. -- Cheers, Carlos.