On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 09:07:52AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> You use terminology very rigorously and I use it very roughly.
Yes. I'm a pedant. :)
> As I am not a man in the computer science world so my terminology
> might be not the standard. My intention is, roughly, like follows.
>
> i
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is *not* a small problem. It is an epidemic. One package in 17 has the
> problem!
That is, less than 6% of packages.
> Packages exhibiting this problem, by md5sum of their long descriptions
> (note that this probably misses some that have long descrip
Hi,
Incidentally, the only significant difference in the
kernel-{source,image,doc,header} packages is the version nubmer. The
packaging is identical, indeed, it is automated, and the versi0on
number is included in the name of the package.
Arguably, the description of these pack
Martin Mitchell wrote:
> > The long description is there for a reason, and I feel these packages are
> > ignoring it it. The libc5 versions should explain, in detail, why you
> > might want to install those packages over the non-libc5 versions. An
> > extended
> > description should be a hand-craf
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The long description is there for a reason, and I feel these packages are
> ignoring it it. The libc5 versions should explain, in detail, why you
> might want to install those packages over the non-libc5 versions. An extended
> description should be a hand-c
Ok, I'm increasingly annoyed at large sets of packages that differ in small
ways and share identical extended descriptions, with only a cursory
indication of the difference given in the short description. I know there
are more, but this is the set I stumbed upon tonight:
Description: Netscape Navi
From: Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: priority of x-window-manager
Date: 10 Mar 2000 14:20:19 +0900
> I think the afterstep package in potato has been enabled i18n option
> (configure --enable-i18n) since its version 1.6.10-1. see the BTS
> about #38154.
>
> # It does not have
From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: priority of x-window-manager
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:37:42 -0500
> Again, it seems to me that you're talking about localization, not
> internationalization. Let me give you an example since we seem to be
> talking past each other on this po
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