Bug#456400: Catalan language should have its own package
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:30:45AM +0100, Orestes Mas wrote:
> I don't completely agree with Jordà Polo's comment. Catalan is a language
> spoken in at least 4 states, i.e.: France, Spain, Andorra and Italy (in the
> city of l'Alguer). In two of them (Andorra and Spain) is official language as
> well. So, if putting catalan into "texlive-lang-spanish" is a clear mistake
> (as catalan and spanish aren't the same langage), putting it into an
> hypotethical "texlive-lang-spain" is not good either.
>
> Catalan language should go into a "texlive-lang-catalan", and it's all.
> Failing to do so will confuse many (La)TeX users, as it happened yet
> according to several messages I've seen in some catalan user's lists.
This was only meant to be a temporary fix until there is a better
proposal for splitting language packs (which no one has provided so
far).
See also the previous bug report[1] and this thread[2].
1. http://bugs.debian.org/456360
2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2008/01/msg00045.html
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