Hi Christian On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:28:59AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Ola Lundqvist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Since when did "outdated and possibly misleading data" become a grave bug? > > IMHO, because the package fails to achieve its main goal which is > providing accurate information. > > I agree that your mileage may vary, but I was really puzzled to see > that simple fixes were not corrected, leading /me to conclude that the > package is not actively maintained. > > So, the main point of the bug is suggesting its removal from the > archive for that reason.
I understand. > > > 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 providing outdated and possibly misleading data.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. > > ISO-3166 changes since last upload and the only purpose of the package > is giving information about it. > > So, my conclusion was drawn: loosely maintained package. > > Last changes in ISO-3166: > - MD renamed to "Moldova" > - Added Saint-barthélémy and Saint-Martin > - several changes to official names of countries (Nepal, Bahrain, > Moldova) but maybe countrycodes doesn't care about official names > - Numeric code updated for Serbia > > .../... Ok, good to know. > > > > > > 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. > > They would, imho. We had some updates for iso-codes that were accepted > so you can for sure ask for freeze exceptions. Ok I see. I just tried to follow the normal procedures. > > > 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. > > Well, still, I'm not sure that this upstream is still alive. So, > probably you deserve my apologies: the package is not loosely > maintained, but upstream is...:-) That is very true. :) > > As you can see from popcon the countrycodes package is fairly popular > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=countrycodes > > Well, it was even installed on my system, for a reason I can't > explain....and without me to be aware of this (I very well may have > installed it very logn time ago, even before iso-codes came out) Could it be so that it has been a part of base, essential or so previously? > > > > > 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. > > > Agreed. > > Still, you can probably patch countrycodes to reflect the last changes > in ISO-3166 and I think it would be accepte for lenny, even though > this is code. I'll try to accomplish that. Best regards, // Ola -- --------------------- 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]
