Hi, 31 Aug 1999 09:42:14 +0200, Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net> wrote about Re: this all this xxx-jp nonsense (was: Re: ITP: grep-ja) (<[🔎] xno4shgqtux.fsf@vile.diku.dk>): peter> Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org> writes: peter> > jnethack: * peter> > This is Japanese handling and many enhancement patched version. peter> > It is too different from original version. peter> > I can't find patch URL... Please teach me. peter> peter> Hmmm, I didn't think this was possible. Without knowing what the peter> special japanese stuff is I think you're right. I've read patch file again, and I found this patch replaces all of messages in English to in Japanese. So, this can't change messages by LANG variable. This seems perfectly localized software ... peter> > xpostit-ja: peter> > This is X11R6 I18N handling patched version. peter> > This hasn't existed on Debian yet, so this package could rename 'xpostit' or 'xpostit-i18n'. peter> > I can't find patch URL... Please teach me. peter> peter> If there is no xpostit and the i18n parts doesn't breaks anything I peter> see no need for a special tag on the package name. peter> peter> Are you sure that xpostit is free. I found the following package peter> non-free/x11/xpostitplus xpostit-ja copyright: * Copyright 1991 by David A. Curry * * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright * notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. The * author makes no representations about the suitability of this software for * any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. It seems DFSG freeware. At now, 'xpostit-ja' maintainer is Mr.Arafune, who is Debian official maintainer. Maybe he will upload this. OK? > Arafune san :-) -- Kenshi Muto kmuto@debian.org http://www.debian.org/~kmuto/
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