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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Do not touch l10n files
From:       Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel () zugschlus ! de>
Date:       2003-05-18 16:55:37
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On Sun, 18 May 2003 17:10:29 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
<jfs@computer.org> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any possibility to prevent
>> translation work from being done on my packages.
>
>Unfortunately, there is a large population of the world that does not 
>understand english at all, but only their native language.

Highly technical packages like zebra, netfilter-related stuff and
linux-atm are most likely to be used by people who know English. Not
speaking English will make running routers and/or internet security
systems almost impossible anyway.

I do not have any objection against end-user packages like KDE, Office
Suites and Word Processors to be internationalized, but it seems
pointless do try that effort for technical, geek-only packages.

Greetings
Marc

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