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Re: Gettext debconf templates translations : several outdated packages discovered



On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:46:09PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen@raw.no):

> > As usual, could you add maintainer names to the list?

> Well, I'm not really enthusiast for this, because:

> 1) I don't have them and this would require more additionnal work to
>    to which I couldn't afford
> 2) I don't want this to be felt like pointing fingers on maintainers

> After all, I guess we all know which packages we maintain, so I
> expected concerned maintainers to recognise themselves in the list.

But it costs individual maintainers more to look through the entire list
for packages they maintain, than it does to search the message body for
their own name/email.  Multiply this by 1000 (or 800, or whatever)
developers, and having the maintainer names is a serious time-saver.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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