On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:23:35AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote: > > Quoting Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au): > >> 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 standard that we know has no single > > justification. > Had you made your own list of locations from scratch there would be no > complaint by me. However, if you use the iso name for every location > except that of Taiwan, then I do have a problem with that. > If this is your attitude, then I shall resign this project. I do not > wish to be associated with people who're actively working towards the > independence of Taiwan. Accepting the unnecessarily awkward expansion of the TW code is no guarantee at all that people aren't working towards the independence of Taiwan, and I hardly think that using this "officially-sanctioned" name in the Debian installer is the most effective means of securing Taiwan's independence. If there are other names that you think are unnecessarily wordy in iso-3166, I'm sure they can also be adjusted for d-i's purposes. The standard here is "don't use pointlessly long names that have been foisted on us by bureaucrats", not "don't use names that satisfy the sensibilities of the Chinese." Surely this is a reasonable standard for an international organization (such as Debian) to follow? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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