Re: Experimental countrychooser branch

2004-05-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 3.V.2004 at 13:56 (+0200) Christian Perrier wrote: > > But they have to justify it with real arguments, not fake > arguments. The ones they give on their web site is currently a fake > argument. We are not in a position to decide which argument is real and which is not. We already know -- th

Re: Experimental countrychooser branch

2004-05-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I do not see how you can justify it by the Social Contract . You're > basically trading the interest of 30 million people against that of > 1 billion. I do not really see where is the interest of 1 billion people when we maintain strict compliance to a s

Re: Experimental countrychooser branch

2004-05-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 3.V.2004 at 17:55 (+1000) Herbert Xu wrote: > > I do not see how you can justify it by the Social Contract . You're > basically trading the interest of 30 million people against that of > 1 billion. If I have to choose between insulting 30 milion or making 1 billion a bit unhappy, I would d

Re: Experimental countrychooser branch

2004-05-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because, imho, this is a case where we plan to deviate from a > standard. We have strong arguments for doing this, most of them being > motivated by the Debian Social Contract (make our possible to benefit I do not see how you can justify it by the

Re: Experimental countrychooser branch

2004-05-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The TW issue is becoming slowly a non issue as ways of translating the > > one and only name which is controversial in iso-3166 list arises. > > It is also an issue in French since we (well, you) are bound to official > French names. Sure. > > > T

Re: Experimental countrychooser branch

2004-05-02 Thread Denis Barbier
[Sent to debian-boot only] On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:05:38AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I made a branch to test some changes in countrychooser: > > svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/people/barbier/countrychooser > > or > > svn://svn.debi

Bug#229325: Experimental countrychooser branch (was Re: Bug#229325: One msg still not fixed in beta4)

2004-05-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I made a branch to test some changes in countrychooser: > svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/people/barbier/countrychooser > or > svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/people/barbier/countrychooser > > The main goal is to get rid of iso-codes for English country

Bug#229325: Experimental countrychooser branch (was Re: Bug#229325: One msg still not fixed in beta4)

2004-05-02 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 08:57:34AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Wang WenRui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > > > There are two phrases "choose country" in the countrychooser need to > > be fixed(changed to "Choose a country, territory or area"). While only > > one of them is fix