I also do not think that packages should be descriminated because they are in another language than english.
Being a swede myself, I'm of course interested in packages available in swedish. However, I currently dont see myself learning japanese or another language than those I already know, and is therefore not interested in such packages. A year ago, when I did not have broadband access at home, I created debian cd's at work. however, since I wanted to fill them with as much useful software (to me) as possible, I wanted to easily remove packages that I immediately knew I would never use. Typically packages with foreign languages (- english :). As I remember, I used rm *-jp*deb (and other languages, no offence to japanese :), but it was quite a tedious task to weed through. What I would like is to have some sort of flag or meta information to indicate what language/es a package contain, so I can write a script to easily weed out packages I know I will never use (and maybe include packages in a specific language). For me this issue is kind of resolved by having net access everywhere, but I guess others could benefit from such functionality. Have anyone else felt this way? Regards, Stefan Quoting Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20 May-01 07:50]: > Hi, > > At Sat, 19 May 2001 12:17:09 +0200 (CEST), > peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's the thought about software which is only available in a > > non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the > > LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support > > for gettext, but no-one has bother translating the program into any > > other languages yet). > > We, Debian JP Project http://www.debian.or.jp/ , have packaged > many Japanese-oriented softwares and uploaded them to Debian. > Then what occured? Some non-Japanese people asked us how to use > them and possible bugs and so on, which means that Japanese- > oriented softwares are sometimes useful for non-Japanese people. > Please go ahead. If someone non-Swedish finds the software in > Debian packages and feels it is very useful, he/she may start > a project to translate it into English or other languages. It > is exciting! > > However, the software will have to have a license document in English.
