Re: Tasks field in packages file

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Andreas Tille wrote:

> When reading tasksel-2.78/tasks/README I stumbled upon:
> 
> Care should be taken when adding new tasks to ensure that the new task is
> suitably generic -- it should be something of value to a large number (at
> least 25%) of our users;
> 
> and than looking at the tasks which are supporting more than 10 different
> languages I can plainly assume that the criterion "at least 25% of our
> users") does definitely not fit - without discriminating any specific
> language it is not realistic to assume that amharic, arabic, basque,
> belarusian, bengali, bosnian, brazilian-portuguese

It is much more likely that non_brazilian-portuguese doesn't meet the 
criteria, given that the population of Brazil is almost all of the world's 
portuguese-speaking population[1]. Not to mention that portuguese is the 6th 
most popular language in the world, which would probably make brazilian-
portuguese the 6th most spoken language, over German, Dutch, French and many 
others. Note that Arabic and Bengali are also over those other languages[2].

Unfortunately, none of the languages cover 25% of the worlds population, 
which would make none of the language tasks appropriate. Unless, of course, 
one takes into account the fact that debian is run by a German cabal, which 
would possibly make it match the 25% :p.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_distribution_of_Portuguese
[2] http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/10languages.htm

-- 
Felipe Sateler