Bug#494468: lower the severity?
On 2008-09-09 10:27 +0200, Neil Williams wrote:
> The package supports a method of adding unsupported locales but that
> this method does not appear to have been used.
>
> Unless the submitter can demonstrate that the existing support is
> broken, I think this bug should be downgraded to normal.
>
> It seems reasonable to me that a package can drop configuration values
> that are unsupported by the package - especially if the package does
> have a way of extending support to meet particular needs.
> Unless /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED can be shown to be broken, I
> don't see a bug here - except maybe a wishlist one for the maintainer
> script to explain what it has done or some comment in README.Debian
> about how to use /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (especially as that is
> a rather strange path - I was expecting /usr/share/locales/SUPPORTED or
> something similar).
For the record, the path is /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (not
/usr/locale/...), and that seems perfectly reasonable, since you don't
want to edit files under /usr locally.
Sven
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