Le Jeu 20 mars 2008 09:20, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : > > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:31 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le jeudi 20 mars 2008 à 04:52 +0100, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : >> >> > 2. I do not agree to the "When Upstream Naming is outside ..." >> section. >> > >> > This section is unnecessarily/avoidable adding confusion for >> > maintainers. Non-ASCII names have always been banned rsp. >> technically >> > impossible ever since Linux exists => this is a non-issue. >> >> That's blatantly false. > I guess I don't have to mention that I whole heartily disagree. You can disagree all you want that's a plain fact hard. I did the tests and you didn't. In fact they show a the breakage when it happens is in the upper layers bolted over rpm in the recent years, and I doubt this was a conscious design decision of the people who wrote them. You could probably shove an 8-bit iso-8859-1 name (which is not the same thing as 7-bit ASCII) through the whole infrastructure today and it wouldn't blink. >> They've not been "banned", otherwise the >> document would not be written today, > This document has been written, because you and your écollier-fonts > package submissing are challenging what had been "common sense" to > most > experienced users, so far. > >> and they've not been "impossible". > You still seem to refuse to understand the issue. > > Installing your package is technically close to impossible to many > users, because they are not able to type/read/display its name Nevertheless the plain fact is that they've not been impossible and they've not been banned before. > May-be you don't see this problem, because "é" is common in your > culture - To others, it's unreadable, undisplayable "fly dirt" (German > hacker slang for unreadable, undisplayable characters), "Greek" as > Englishmen might be calling it. I perfectly understand the problem, which is why I object to you pretending it's something else to shore up your arguments. >> What changed is that the 8-bits encoding that passed through before >> are >> being replaced by an encoding that lifts all the >> translating/regional >> incompatibility problems and adds some technical requirements that >> could >> be taken care of. > I disagree. SuSE and Debian have it right. Which again are soft policies, not the impossibility you pretend in your message. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
