Herbert Xu wrote: > Tetralet <tetralet@pchome.com.tw> 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 is discriminating against Taiwan people. > > It will not be a very good first impression to Debian users. > > > > And, It is a gross disparagement to Taiwan people. > > Thus some of us may refuse to use Debian anymore. > > Who cares? It'd be much better if you didn't use Debian at all. It's been pointed out to me, that a newcomer to this mailing list might get the impression that Herbert Xu's statement above is representative of the opinions or policies of the Debian Installer team. I want to make clear that it is not. Specifically, we support Taiwanese users of Debian and the Debian Installer, and we appreciate the work Tetralet is doing on translating the installer to the zh_TW locale. Christian Perrier, Alastair McKinstry, and others have been working to find ways to make the way countrychooser presents countries acceptable to everyone. It's delicate work, they've been doing a good job, and I think we should give them a chance to succeed in that before considering any other solutions. I suggest that anyone who has an idea on the matter, tell it to Christian and Alastair. A large discussion/flamewar, as seems to be brewing on several Debian mailing lists, is unlikely to help resolve the situation, and will only destract many of us from getting the next beta of the installer ready by the end of this month. If we still have a problem in a couple of weeks, then perhaps we'll have to decide it's unresolvable, and throw out the idea of the installer prompting for countries in its current form. -- see shy jo
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