Quoting Nicolas Spalinger (nicolas_spalinger@sil.org): > I agree with you. Since this is the name upstream has chosen, the > package should reflect that. And as you say the description can explain > what is intended. While I agree that respecting upstream's naming choice is important, it is also IMHO the package maintainers' duty to alert "their" upstream on such issues. I still think that choosing "aboriginal" is quite inappropriate and could even sound offending by other populations calling self (or having been called) Aboriginal (I seem to remember exchanges I had with Enrico Zini about "aboriginal" languages in Taiwan). So, I would urge you to raise this issue with upstream and discuss it. It seems to me that these fonts could be young enough for a rename to be sustainable. And, frankly, from my POV, I don't immediately think about North-American native populations when I hear "aboriginal" (which I immediately translate to "aborigène" in French, whether it's correct or not).
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