Package Maintainers Flags policy
Matthew Garrett
mjg at redhat.com
Tue May 19 13:28:59 UTC 2009
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 03:16:32PM +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
> I use the educational suite GCompris with my 2-year old daughter, which
> I really enjoy doing. The configuration menu uses flag countries to let
> you select the language of the various games. A French flag for French,
> a Portugal flag for portuguese, even a Catalan flag for people from
> Barcelona. Now the burden is on the packager to figure out how to patch
> the application to work without the images (tough sell to get upstream
> help on this).
There isn't a 1:1 mapping between flags and languages, and arguably an
educational suite should be avoiding encouraging that confusion in
children.
> If you agree to the absurdity of the broad effects caused by the policy
> you voted for, you need to resign from FeSCo immediately.
Please keep the conversation civil.
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