Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joshua Swink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > So, you mean you want 30 translators to update their work just because > > you feel the need of nitpicking things? > > Whoa there. I'm not in a position to judge the technical difficulty of > fixing it. If folks maintaining the package deem that the ef

Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-08 Thread Joshua Swink
> So, you mean you want 30 translators to update their work just because > you feel the need of nitpicking things? Whoa there. I'm not in a position to judge the technical difficulty of fixing it. If folks maintaining the package deem that the effort to fix it outweighs the benefit of correct term

Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joshua Swink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It's used to refer to the Americas. North and South America together > are known as the Americas. Or known by their users as "America" and, depending on the side of Panama Canal, that might be North, South, Latin, Central, etc. An sometimes even the cou

Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-08 Thread Joshua Swink
In Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:07:24PM +, Joshua Swink wrote: >> The file usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab refers to the Americas as >> "America" 137 times. > > Do you mean that "America" is used to refer to either North America o

Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-08 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:07:24PM +, Joshua Swink wrote: > The file usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab refers to the Americas as > "America" 137 times. Do you mean that "America" is used to refer to either North America or South America each of those 137 times? > Less importantly (since they do not

Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-08 Thread Joshua Swink
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 05:38:01PM -0800, Joshua Swink wrote: >> The package refers to the Americas as "America", which is incorrect. > > Be more specific. > The file usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab refers to the Americas as "Ame

Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-08 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 05:38:01PM -0800, Joshua Swink wrote: > The package refers to the Americas as "America", which is incorrect. Be more specific. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas

2008-12-07 Thread Joshua Swink
Package: tzdata Version: 2008i-3 The package refers to the Americas as "America", which is incorrect. -- Joshua Swink [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]