Re: Bug#186140: Bug#206210: diff: does not comply with LSB 1.3 (fwd)
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 07:42:02AM -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
The quality is a factor of enough different eyes getting
a look and submitting their comments. There's been much
less of that recently than there was in the earlier days.
Feel free to point out what else looks awkward - like any
open project, contributions make it what it is...
Yes, I have contributed comments. IIRC, there was silly web form for
doing that, so I don't have any record of what they were and I certainly
didn't get any response. So I've kinda lost interest in doing that.
I still haven't seen a reference for an authoritative source that makes
openi18n a necessary part of the LSB, and there's a lot of discussion
about whether it even specifically covers the shell utitilities any
more. It shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm not jumping out of my
chair to support a hide-and-seek standard.
I don't think the openi18n team got a lot of traction
with upstream maintainers for their patches when they
were just representative of that group.
Probably because it's a huge problem and IIRC one of the early goals of
the LSB, at least, was to document a consensus rather than force a huge
set of new requirements.
Mike Stone
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