----- Forwarded message from Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Removing -japanese version of jed, slang and slrn Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:07:42 +0900 To: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-japanese@lists.debian.org, debian-qa@lists.debian.org User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.24 (Wonderwall) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 15) (Security Through Obscurity) (i386-debian-linux)
Hi, At Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:16:35 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > There are 3 forks of popular packages in the archive with a special > -qa version: jed-ja, slang1-ja and slrn-ja. Unfortunately, these were > orphaned 1 year and 100 days ago, and still they have not been > adopted. This means that they are out of date with regards to the > proper version: > > jed-ja 0.99.10.jp0-3.3 (jed: 0.99.16-3.2) > slang1-ja 1.4.2-2.2 (slang1: 1.4.9-2) > slrn-ja 0.9.6.2-2 (slrn: 0.9.8.0-12) > > I doubt that these -ja patches will get merged upstream anytime soon > unless someone actually does something; also, in some cases, other > programs handle Japanese just fine (slrn -> tin). > > My basic question is: what shall we do with these -ja packages? After Some monthes ago (Feb 2004), Fumitoshi Ukai asked Japanese developpers about this issue, but no one seems stand. I don't use jed-ja, slang1-ja, and slrn-ja... and I believe almost Japanese people don't use them also. Currently I use slang1a-utf8 as slang library, and haven't a serious problem. My opinion is "you can remove them". If these packages are needed by someone in the future, he/she will be able to get them from snapshot.debian.net or somewhere :-) Thanks, -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]