On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:50:53AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:30:46 +0200, > Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > I get the impression that someone is strongly against changing the > > current ugly behaviour, and wants to ship Sarge with such a broken > > impression. I always read "different opinions", "no idea to apply" and > > similar things, but never a *reason*(1). I get the impression, it is > > along the lines "If you don't use unicode, then you are /&/()$§&" or maybe > > some german related resistance? I don't know. > > > > Gretings > > > > Helge > > > > (1) If there are technical reasons, they can be (usually) solved. If > > there are "political" reasons, then they should be stated as such > > and discussed. If you don't have time, then maybe someone with > > enough knowledge (Denis?) can prepare a NMU for you. > > I strongly disagree with your NMU. Please discuss with the upstream > before applying patch. See: > > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56
You know that despite Petter's efforts, locales bugs take a very long time to be processed (if they are), which is why there are many debian/patches/locale-*.dpatch around. If there was a single argument against this fix, I could understand your point of view, but there is none. Denis