advertisement in packaged software

[Petr Pisar]

On 2014-02-12, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 12 février 2014 à 07:11 -0500, Matthew Miller a écrit :
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:08:20PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
>> > > Are there any existing packages that already do that?
>> > vim advertises ICCF to make a donation for children in Uganda.
>> 
>> Even leaving aside the whole charity / good cause vs. selling consumer goods
>> aspect, I think a message about donations buried in the help is also a
>> completely different case.
>
> On Fedora, it is in the help.
> On Debian, it is directly on the start when you open a empty file.
>
> So I am not sure which one is the default, there is no obvious patchs to
> enable or disable it in our packages and on Debian side.
>
Maybe out-dated localization. I can see the text at welcome screen in
cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale in Fedora, although there is nothing like that in
en_US.UTF-8 locale.

-- Petr