Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please move "locales" and "locales-all" to Section: localization.
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 04:19:17PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 02:44:59PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: >> Package: locales >> Version: 2.10.2-5 >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: patch >> >> All the packages that provide internationalisation data are moving >> out of "Section: libs" and into their own private part of the >> archive; but locales and locales-all haven't followed them. >> >> There's no obvious reason for libc's l10n data package to be an >> exception; it contains no .so files, but does provide executables >> that are important for the system's locale-handling infrastructure. >> Compare the package iptables, which is full of actual shared >> libraries and lives in "Section: net". >> >> One practical benefit of moving it out of "Section: libs" is that it >> would make life easier for tools like deborphan. At present if I do >> a Debian install using the "Standard+Desktop" tasks, but then remove >> mutt, locales ends up flagged as a redundantly installed library. >> >> You may have some good counterargument, but I'm submitting this >> suggestion in case it's just that nobody has considered it. > > Done at the package level. Feel free to ask the ftpmaster team to do the > same change at the archive level. (I'm not necessarily expecting quite such a blistering turnaround with this...) -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
