Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 15:03:05 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 295668] Stale cross-encoding locale symlinks from FreeBSD 13 survive upgrade to FreeBSD 15, masking missing locale entries Message-ID: <bug-295668-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295668 Bug ID: 295668 Summary: Stale cross-encoding locale symlinks from FreeBSD 13 survive upgrade to FreeBSD 15, masking missing locale entries Product: Base System Version: 15.0-RELEASE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: shirley.s@dell.com Prior to commit 0a36787e4c1f ("locales: separate unicode from other locales", https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=0a36787e4c1fa0cf77dcf83be0867178476e372b, https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/0a36787e4c1fa0cf77dcf83be0867178476e372b), locale category Makefiles (e.g., share/msgdef/Makefile) were single combined files that contained both Unicode and non-Unicode entries. This allowed cross-encoding SAME entries such as: SAME+= nl_NL.UTF-8 nl_BE.ISO8859-1 SAME+= nl_NL.UTF-8 nl_BE.ISO8859-15 SAME+= sr_RS.UTF-8@latin hr_HR.ISO8859-2 SAME+= sr_RS.UTF-8@latin sr_RS.ISO8859-2 These entries created symlinks where a non-Unicode locale's category file pointed to a UTF-8 locale's category file (e.g., nl_BE.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES -> ../nl_NL.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES). That commit split each Makefile into separate unicode and non-unicode variants (e.g., share/msgdef/Makefile for non-Unicode, share/msgdef_unicode/Makefile for UTF-8). During this split, the cross-encoding entries above were dropped because the source locale (UTF-8) and the target locale (ISO8859) belong to different Makefiles. When upgrading from FreeBSD 13 (pre-split) to FreeBSD 15 (post-split), the following stale symlinks from the pre-split era are not removed: 14188 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26 May 12 2022 /usr/share/locale/nl_BE.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES -> ../nl_NL.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES 13864 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26 May 12 2022 /usr/share/locale/nl_BE.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES -> ../nl_NL.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES 14363 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32 May 12 2022 /usr/share/locale/sr_RS.ISO8859-2/LC_MESSAGES -> ../sr_RS.UTF-8@latin/LC_MESSAGES 14313 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32 May 12 2022 /usr/share/locale/hr_HR.ISO8859-2/LC_MESSAGES -> ../sr_RS.UTF-8@latin/LC_MESSAGES For comparison, symlinks that the current post-split Makefiles do create have the upgrade timestamp: 282968 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28 Dec 2 17:52 /usr/share/locale/nl_BE.ISO8859-15/LC_CTYPE -> ../en_US.ISO8859-15/LC_CTYPE 289046 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 2 17:52 /usr/share/locale/nl_BE.ISO8859-15/LC_TIME -> ../nl_BE.UTF-8/LC_TIME 288427 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 29 Dec 2 17:52 /usr/share/locale/nl_BE.ISO8859-15/LC_NUMERIC -> ../tr_TR.ISO8859-9/LC_NUMERIC These stale symlinks happen to still function correctly — the UTF-8 targets they point to exist, and the LC_MESSAGES content is pure ASCII (e.g., ja/nee for Dutch, da/ne for Croatian/Serbian), so there is no encoding mismatch. This means setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "nl_BE.ISO8859-1") succeeds on upgraded systems. However, on a clean FreeBSD 15 install (no upgrade), these symlinks don't exist and setlocale() returns NULL for these locales, because the post-split Makefiles never re-introduced equivalent non-Unicode entries. The stale symlinks on upgraded systems mask this underlying missing-entry bug. It is filed with bug #295666. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.home | help
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