On 03:37 Tue 16 Feb , Paul Wise wrote: PW> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org> wrote: >> new version of rtpg (rtpg2) will have language button and geoIP peer's >> information with country's flag etc. PW> Sounds like a fairly pointless feature to me. Unfortunately that seems PW> to be common in torrent clients these days. The language button PW> likewise sounds less than useful since HTTP content negotiation does PW> the same job automatically. >> Why should I avoid adding flags? I looked through Your links but I >> didn't understand why using flags is a bad way? I have found full >> free flag collection, flags occur in many packages and I think it is >> the obvious method to separate geo information. PW> I'd encourage you to read the whole LWN thread, but in short: to PW> prevent nationalistic or political disputes from affecting Debian. PW> As an example of the practical effects of flags in the context of PW> Debian; a number of years ago we lost our kernel maintainer, partially PW> because KDE in Debian included a flag of a country the maintainer (and PW> his government) disapproved of. A team formed to replace him, but PW> losing contributors still sucks. Hgm.. When I saw KDE (it was 1.xx version) it contained lang switcher which used flags as language indicator. What happened to it? How is this task resolved now? In my project flags wont be required but i would upload/maintain separated flags package (it is already in NEW stage). Yes, flags can activate some people, for example I hate our current russian flag which was used by traitor army of Vlasov in Great Patriotic War and now is using our occupation government, but it is usually practice to use flags as indicators and I don't know other alternatives - I'm using it. We wanted to add flags package and add suggest or recommend level of dependence into our package. But If it is so meaningful theme may be it must be noticed in debian-policy? -- ... mpd is off . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov : :’ : email: unera@debian.org jabber://UNera@uvw.ru `. `~’ GPGKey: 1024D / F8E26537 2006-11-21 `- 1B23 D4F8 8EC0 D902 0555 E438 AB8C 00CF F8E2 6537
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