On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > package, so rather that send you a message in BR language (which you > > probably can't read) you get the English form letter. Overall, better to > > get a form letter in a language you can read, than a personally written > > email in a language you can't read. > well, that's what people wanted and asked for in this list...
This is more a response to Vince, than Gustavo: How can you know what language is native for a maintainer, based on the package name? Sending an english form-letter to <pkg>@packages seems wrong, and against what this whole idea is about. I would rather see support added to dpkg first, for storing this info(make all tools in dpkg(this includes dpkg-dev(which stores the data into the .deb) do this), then work on displaying this info. I am very much against this hackish end-run around what are open-development tools. Adam, who is a dpkg developer.
