severity 506189 wishlist thanks Hi Christian
Since when did "outdated and possibly misleading data" become a grave bug? Bug #492014 refer to montenegro, which I agree is a fault but I can hardly tell that this is a grave bug. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:39:02AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Package: countrycodes > Version: 1.0.5-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > This package, which is apparently very loosely maintained is currently > providing outdated and possibly misleading data. Where did you get the information that it is loosely maintained from? I agree that it has not been updated for some time, but I have not had any really important bugs on it either. > The ISO-3166 codes have changed since last updates and no update for the > package came to correct this. See also #492014 for misleading data. Yes true. However as you also probably know we have had freeze for some time and during that time no corrections for "normal" bugs are accepted. This could partly be treated as documentation but I'm not sure it will be accepted. > In parallel, the iso-codes packages is providing up-to-date lists with the > ISO-3166 maintenance agency data used as reference. Yes but this is only documentation. No binary to simplify. > I think that, as is, this package should not be shipped with lenny but > either be completely dropped from the archive is noones wants to maintain > it, or modified to avoid using an internal reference list but rather > iso-codes' XML data (and then have the package depend on iso-codes). I do not agree. Countrycodes is packaged version of the "upstream" countrycodes software. This is the only intention of this package. > Please note, in the meantime, isoquery came out, which allows using > iso-codes data for either ISO 639, 3166 or 4217. I was not aware of that. If it is good then it can probably replace countrycodes in the future. We could add some kind of transition, but that should not be done in the middle of a freeze. As you can see from popcon the countrycodes package is fairly popular http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=countrycodes I can see that isoquery is more popular which could vote for a drop of countrycodes but let us take that after Lenny in that case. Best regards, // Ola > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages countrycodes depends on: > ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > > countrycodes recommends no packages. > > countrycodes suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
