On 22/08/17 10:52, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:28:18AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> According to this section in the Debian Installer i18n guide[1], the >> list of countries is based on ISO3166. > Kosovo is listed in ISO3166 as RS-KM, see > https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:RS > > However we don't list subdivisions.
I'm not sure adding support for subdivisions would satisfy Debian users in some of these situations but it could be one part of the solution. >> According to wikipedia, ISO3166 comes from a group of 10 >> representatives[2] from mostly rich countries. > Most of them from countries actually reognizing Kosovo as independent, > so what? While it is good that we use material from official sources, Debian is independent of any state and may not need to feel constrained by such lists/standards in the same way that a commercial software vendor might be. >> It may be interesting to support micronations like the Principality of >> Hutt River[5] too. > This one is not recognized by anyone. > > Please let the peolpe of Kosovo speak for themselves. Well, when somebody in Kosovo set up a new mirror, they listed[1] it under AL (Albania) rather than RS (Serbia). Regards, Daniel 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867255
