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Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd



> would the assumtion be that all languages do not offer a neutral way to
> ask questions? I hope that is not the case. This would seem to be a
> linguistic question for the translators and i18n/i10n team and to
> whether they can 'correct' any strings to make them neutral and to issue
> bugs on any package that has non-neutral language.


Well, even though some of us are pretty sensitive on the topic, I
don't see much valule added by the i18n folks on an issue that also
concerns English.

Gender-neutral wording is a general issue, imho.

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