> I know that Debian is a volunteer organization. After all I'm in the > middle of the NM process ;-) I only want to ask people (or at least > European people) if someone is doing something, or thinks that something > must be done. What I don't want to do is to start fixing those things by > hand, and start thinking how this could be done in spanish debian lists, > while the Germany or French people are doing the same. What I want is > that if something is going to be made, be made by everyone altogether.
I am an European living in Canada. I am using a "US international" kbd layout. Originally it was called "US latin-1", and besides the fact that it didn't include the euro symbol (which is normal for latin-1) it was not even able to produce some accented characters correctly (I speak and write in French, and am still in contact with Europeans). I have modified it and obtained a keymap that is both Latin-[09]/ISO-8859-15 compliant. I have filled a bug report against console-data (90642), including a patch, and after 48 days this has still not be fixed. I did not even receive an aknowledgment from the package maintainer. So, yes Debian is a volunteer organization. But some volunteers (maintainers) should "volonteer" more than volunteers who send patches. My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢) Wolfgang