[Reproducible-builds] u-boot locale variations with it_*.UTF-8

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Well, I've been debugging why u-boot stopped building reprodicbly, and
it appears to be that the recent fix that really switches armhf to build
with it_CH.UTF-8 locale actually breaks u-boot reproducibility.

So, just for comparison, I also tested with other locales, including
some with non-latin "alphabets" and other countries just to vary as much
as possible, and the following all built reproducibly with each other:

  C
  el_GR.UTF-8
  ru_RU.UTF-8
  ar_EG.UTF-8
  zh_CN.UTF-8
  es_ES.UTF-8
  fr_CH.UTF-8
  et_EE.UTF-8
  ja_JP.UTF-8
  ko_KR.UTF-8
  en_US.UTF-8

And these locales built reproducibly with each other:

  it_CH.UTF-8
  it_IT.UTF-8


Haven't really figured out *what* the actual issue is, but figured I'd
share my confusion.


With this as evidence, there appear to be two kinds of locales, Italian,
and not-Italian. At least when it comes to u-boot. :)


live well,
  vagrant
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