Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 04:50:05PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
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> Hi.
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> Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian.
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> It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it
> "widely". This means that even if it is not accesable by dselect, we
> should not put it on CDs yet.
I know that, although I don't understand that at all. IMO this policy is just
standing in the way of translating, etc. We could have all bash scripts
i18n'ed by now, as bash supports this since a long time. But you need gettext
to use this feature.
We all know how important spreading a program is. We should honour the
wishes of the author, but nevertheless downloading it costs me real money,
and getting it on CD has the very same effect as putting it on ftp.
> If a package being in "experimental" does not implicitly mean "not to be
> distributed in CDs", then we would need definitely another different
> "experimental" for gettext.
Maybe non-free/experimental? Sorry for the shot.
Marcus
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