* Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian@tmail.plala.or.jp> [2003-01-29 13:56]:
> It is because the web page is automatically generated by a script
> from developers database on db.debian.org . The script assumes
> the first part of name is given name and the last part is family
> name. Since there are many names which don't follow the assumption,
> the script has many exception handlers. Josip added two exception
> handlers and the page will be fixed in the next build.
Uhm, just out of curisity, there are sn and cn which contains the
surename and the firstname (why in the cn field?). Wouldn't it be best
to use that data directly instead of the gecos field?
> You know, some Japanese people write names in their native order,
> "Family Given", and such expressions exist in db.debian.org database.
Those expressions should exist in the gecos filed only, but there is
still cn and sn which should be filled with the correct data.
> ... but I checked the script
> (klecker:/org/www.debian.org/cron/people_scripts/people.pl) and
> I couldn't find additional handlers.
Oh, when looking at the script it _does_ use the cn and sn data....
Then it seems that the database is filled wrongly. We shouldn't define
exceptions in the script but get the db admin to fix the data in there
instead....
Just my 0.02 EUR,
Alfie
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