Well, I have to comment on this finally. First of all, the patch that was actually applied (http://git.altlinux.org/gears/g/..git?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=glibc-2.13-145-gf498392) does something very different from its description (Lowercase month names). Besides the change of abbreviated month names to lowercase (which is probably OK), it also slipped in a mix of other changes: - change of abbreviated day names from fixed three-letter form to fixed two-letter form (actually fixes http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10873 which provides a good set of references); - unjustified addition of trailing dots to abbreviated day names (it's plain wrong); - unjustified addition of trailing dots to abbreviated month names (it's also plain wrong); - unjustified change of abbreviated month names from nominative to genitive (it's also wrong and it actually reverts the fix made for http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=525); - unjustified change of abbreviated month names from fixed three-letter form to variable length form (just a nonsense).
Second, the procedure of describing changes, getting an approval from the locale maintainer and providing good references (as described in http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist#Qualification_.28Locales.29) was totally scrapped. What I suggest in the way of recovery is to revert all these unjustified changes. The only changes that can remain are: - change of abbreviated month names to lowercase (a fix for this bug report); - change of abbreviated day names to two-letter form (a fix for http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10873). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124987 Title: Month names in Russian Localization should be in lowercase To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/124987/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
