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[Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641

Philip Withnall <bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---
            Summary|Add a strftime()-like       |Deprecate name_fmt
                   |function for formatting     |
                   |human names                 |

--- Comment #14 from Philip Withnall <bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #13)
> Closing per previous discussion.

As per comments #5 and #6, I think the proper solution is to deprecate
name_fmt, since it seems to be fundamentally incorrect to have it in libc, and
keeping it un-deprecated just encourages people to use it incorrectly or
unsuccessfully.

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