Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason wrote: > No benefit? The benefit is that the program they previously either > didn't understand or understood poorly is now talking to them in their > native language. That's a pretty big benefit. And for the languages that are not translated yet? Don't get me wrong --- I'm only trying to give a sense of what it is like for a user to experience a regression. It is generally little solace that someone else's use case is supported better. > So unless someone else is interested in helping audit all that > code, providing a printf() fallback on glibc etc. it'll block the i18n > series. Oh, I never meant to say that this should be a blocker. Only that there really are costs and benefits to weigh. Much more important than the known bugs are the unknown bugs --- you've heard this before, I think. The way to get rid of unknown bugs (aside from inspecting code) is to get users. For example, if Gerrit doesn't mind, I would like to apply your patches to experimental once the version being staged for squeeze clears from there. Other interested people can attract users in other ways --- by providing documentation, tarballs, ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html