Hello Mr. Wichert Akkerman, One month ago, I asked you to apply multibyte extension patch to grep and sed and to upload them, to upload grep-ja and sed-ja (by me) instead.
However there is no uploading them. Why? You said in debian-devel@lists.debian.org (archive/latest/43648) `release fast, release often' What is a reason you cannot do so? ( I feel that one month is too long to wait as "fast release") If the upstream maintainer does not apply the patch, you should apply and upload them as debian packages because potato is the unstable yet. If you left them not supported multi-byte, Japanese users will not be happy to use debian. There is not enough time to release potato. If you cannot upload grep and sed with multibyte extension until the frozen status (November 1st?), I want to upload them as another package (grep-ja or sed-ja). Please let me know your thinking. Thank you for your reading my poor English. Best Regards. ----- Research Institute of Electrical Communication Tohoku University Dr. Ryuichi Arafune [EMAIL PROTECTED]