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Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes



Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:36:25PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >I agree that an apology isn't necessary, but *some* kind of advice,
> >given that sarge will be *removing* support for a large class of users,
> 
> That's not true. Something is changing, arguably for the worse. Nobody
> is being unsupported. Inflating the hyperbole isn't productive.

Sorry, by "unsupported" I meant he previously reasonable German
quotation marks have been turned into ones that no German speaker
thinks are acceptable.

> I don't recall saying that a mention in the release notes is
> inappropriate or unacceptable. I don't recall objecting to the proposed
> wording. The only thing I recall objecting to was the specific term
> "apology". The UTF-8 issue is something I said I'd "hesitate" to
> recommend. 

Ok, so how about we articulate problems might occur?  Perhaps we
should have a file about it, b/c we shouldn't put more than a single
paragraph in the release notes in my opinion.

Perhaps you could write down some of the more frequent problems that
users with UTF-8 might expect to see (especially any actual bugs you
know of; you suggested there were some but I may have misunderstood),
and this could be included.

Thomas



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