Need Help with duperemove in Debian

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Fri Sep 5 06:44:40 UTC 2025


Dear Chris,

On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 02:24:04PM -0700, Chris Lamb wrote:
> This is more of a slight weirdness in the C locale rather then
> something in ee_EE. (ee_EE is still a good choice for reprotest, however,
> because whilst en_US and friends sort the lower case before the upper
> case, et_EE.UTF-8 and the "C" locale sort capital letters before the
> lower case. Also, Estonian sorts the letter 'z' between 's' and 't'. 
> Also, I'm fun at parties.) 

I bet you are! :)

> If that wasn't confusing enough, GNU Make then makes it even harder to
> make sorting deterministic in practice.

& thank you very much for the complete mail, not just the quoted part.
Fun, interesting and insightful to read and such a "nice" example of
the logical weirdnesses one can encounter when working on... software! :)
 

-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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