Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive
I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written...
> Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>> We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid
>> growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore.
> Great.
>> The new sections are:
> [...]
>> localisations Language packs
> I'd prefer "localization".
Whereas I'd prefer "localisation"...
> - We use en_US in general -> "ize"
... unless you're localising for en_US. OTOH, given that that section is for
localisation, "localization" is probably right, being localised...
("-ize" isn't actually wrong here, but it looks too American to us so we use
"-ise" even where it *is* wrong; thus it ends up becoming right.)
[snip]
> What about packages like libcvs-perl or libgit-ruby? Do they stay with the
> language or move to this new category?
ISTM that they should stay with the language, but I can see why they might be
moved. There's a good argument there for having them belong to two sections,
but that's why debtags exists.
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