fedora release name problem
Sérgio Basto
sergio at serjux.com
Sat Mar 30 23:35:13 UTC 2013
On Qui, 2013-03-28 at 21:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Of course not, but that's kinda different. In the one case, the long
> > slip bought us an entirely rewritten installer. In this case, any
> > potential slip buys us...a prettified release name. Gee, willikers,
> > watch me trying to restrain my excitement.
>
> In any case, what this teaches us is that release names are not "harmless
> fun" as the fans of continuing with release names have repeatedly claimed.
> This pointless "fun" has a real cost. In this case, it actually PREVENTED
> SYSTEMS FROM BOOTING! And once this got worked around, we're still wasting
> time trying to fix issues with non-ASCII characters in the release name. Not
> to mention all the time wasted discussing the nonsense.
>
> Let's drop release names NOW (ideally immediately, before the F19 release)!
> The harmFUL "fun" is not worth the harm it causes.
>
> If some tools expect a release name, just use Nineteen as the release name.
I agree with you , some tool are design to work with ASCII as in
nineties and don't see any advantage of release name becomes UTF-8
strings.
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Sérgio M. B.
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