Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Denis Leroy wrote:

> On 05/19/2009 02:52 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> I think it's mildly hypocritical of anyone to demand that we restore
>> flags without also restoring the missing bits of fortune files and the
>> 'random image' screensavers. The principle is the same -- some stupid
>> people choose to be offended, and we're pandering to them because we
>> want an easy life.
>
> I use the educational suite GCompris with my 2-year old daughter, which I 
> really enjoy doing. The configuration menu uses flag countries to let you 
> select the language of the various games. A French flag for French, a 
> Portugal flag for portuguese, even a Catalan flag for people from Barcelona. 
> Now the burden is on the packager to figure out how to patch the application 
> to work without the images (tough sell to get upstream help on this).
>
> If you agree to the absurdity of the broad effects caused by the policy you 
> voted for, you need to resign from FeSCo immediately.

I don't think that particular leap is logical.

What do the flags specify for a country like the US? Or China? or 
Switzerland?

If a program means to say "choose your language" then they should say 
"choose your language". Not "choose a flag from a linguistically 
homogenous country".

-sv