Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?
Why can't it just stick with a neutral "Taiwan".
Why single out a geographical name and append a political statement to it?
Sticks out and looks kind of silly.
Who cares what the two governments' official names for Taiwan are.
Why thrust Debian
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:57:54AM -0700, Anthony Johnson wrote:
> You should go back to China mainland and ask for
> people there. IIRC, you are NOT located in China
> mainland, right?
But, I still watch the same CCTV and read the same Chinese newspapers.
NO differences.
> BTW: Do not compare wind
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* Alastair McKinstry [2004-04-04 21:50:28+0100]
> I have made one addition to the console-data keymaps, which results in a
> string addition:
>
> msgid "trfu"
>
> This is 'translated' in English as
> msgstr "Turkish (F layout)".
>
> Can translators please check out their translations
Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from the beta2 announcement: "Support for systems with only 32 MB of memory
> (i386 only)." anybody ot an idea what the requirements for other archs (e.g.
> powerpc) are ? I guess they should be roughly the same ?
About 25 MB for mips.
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Dan Jacobson writes:
> Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? Why can't it just
> stick with a neutral "Taiwan".
No reason I can think of.
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Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>
> > Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello d-i peoples,
> >>
> >> since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some
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On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 09:50:28PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have made one addition to the console-data keymaps, which results in a
> string addition:
>
> msgid "trfu"
>
> This is 'translated' in English as
> msgstr "Turkish (F layout)".
>
> Can translators please check out
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Dan Jacobson wrote:
Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?
If this is true, it is an gross understatement to call it a political
faux pas.
The chinese nationalist movement left China and took over Taiwan (Formosa)
during the red campaign.
To remove all 'face' from them in this
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:04:23AM +0800, Katipo wrote:
> Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> >Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?
> >
> >
[snip]
Three thoughts:
1. The UN is not the final arbiter of names of political entities.
e.g. except for US veto, Isreal would have ceased to have
Incoming from Paul E Condon:
> We have both. We are inclusive. Inclusive is PC. PC is good.
...^^
Please, don't drag that into this. This was a fairly civilized
discussion before that happened.
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--- Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of
> China"?
> Why can't it just stick with a neutral "Taiwan".
> Why single out a geographical name and append a
> political statement to it?
> Sticks out and looks kind of silly.
Debian cannot win this argu
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 07:28:49PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> same. If Debian has a Chinese language version for which the final arbiter
> of language usage is a Mainlander, the name in Debian should also be of
> that person's choosing. If the final arbiter is a resident/citizen of
Here's a w
Anthony Johnson writes:
> We have to choose names from some standards body somewhere...
The "standards body" in question is the UN, which has labeled the place
"Taiwan, a province of China" for purely political purposes. In normal
conversation the place is referred to simply as "Taiwan". Tacking
Anthony Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? Why can't it
> > just stick with a neutral "Taiwan". Why single out a geographical
> > name and append a political statement to it? Sticks out and looks
> > kind of silly.
> Debian cannot win
Herbert Xu wrote:
> Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > People who install Debian via debian-installer will find that "Taiwan"
> > was replaced with "Taiwan, Province of China".
> > They may not detect immediately that this country code is based on ISO-3166,
> > But they will think that Debian
Hi,
> > from the beta2 announcement: "Support for systems with only 32 MB of
> > memory (i386 only)." anybody ot an idea what the requirements for other
> > archs (e.g. powerpc) are ? I guess they should be roughly the same ?
> About 25 MB for mips.
Thanks.
Is it hopeless to try an install with
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