Bug#360829: xfonts-cronyx-75dpi: why culture::taiwanese?

[Enrico Zini]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:08:44PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> [Please keep the CC to 360829 at bugs.debian.org]
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:51:37AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > Package: xfonts-cronyx-75dpi
> > Severity: wishlist
> > The Description should say why "Tag: culture::taiwanese" is used in
> > xfonts-cronyx-75dpi and xfonts-cronyx-100dpi.
> I don't understand how the tagging system works and I don't know what
> to do with this bug.  These fonts have nothing to do with the
> taiwanese culture and in my opinion the culture::* tags are not
> appropriate for most font packages.

I think that comes out of a wrong tag submission in the debtags website:
we have some, but luckily not too many.  I fixed the entry in the
reviewed tag repository; it'll take a while for the fix to get to the
Packages file, but I'll get there.

The culture::* tags are intended to be used when someone looks for
specific support for a given culture.  So an italian can look for
packages matching culture::italian to find spellcheckers, fortune
databases and so on.  A package can have many tags, so the
culture::russian tag doesn't mean that only the Russians use cyrillic:
if it's applicable, I can attach the culture::bulgarian and IIRC also
culture::mongolian (please tell me if there are more) tags to the font,
so that other people who use the Cyrillic script can find the fonts they
need.


> Is there some package or pseudopackage I should reassign this bug to?

You could use the 'debtags' package.

> Is there some text the package maintainers should read?

Not yet: we're currently finalizing some procedures and redoing the
editing interface: I plan to create some guidelines after that is done.


[ note for the other debtags-devel people: I'll be away for a week:
could you please attend to bug reports while I'm away? ]


Ciao,

Enrico

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