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["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124987

Title:
  Month names in Russian Localization should be in lowercase

Status in The GNU C Library:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Fix Released
Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Panel clock shows date for Russian locale in the following format:
  "Втр, 10 Июл, 00:31". It is not right.

  1. According to Russian writing practice, month names are not
  capitalized. So if month name doesn't stay in the beginning of the
  sentence, its first letter should not be capital (for example: "10
  июля" or "10 июл" for abbreviation).

  2. 3 letter abbreviations for weekdays are very rare in Russian. It is
  better to use 2 letters (Пн, Вт, Ср, Чт, Пт, Сб, Вс).

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