Bug#494468: lower the severity?
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:27:20AM +0100, 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).
>
>
/usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED has been added for this precise usage,
that is for locales which are not officially supported. This has been
done in order to avoid receiving bugs about broken non officially
supported locales.
In the last few weeks, I was pondering on how to fix this bug (that's
why I have not been active on this bug, but also due to lack of
motivation). My conclusion is that we really have to fix the problem,
because:
- this breaks upgrade from Etch if people have added locales there;
- this doesn't comply with the Debian policy.
I'll try to rewrite the maintainer scripts of the package today or
tomorrow.
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