Quoting Ola Lundqvist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Since when did "outdated and possibly misleading data" become a grave bug?
IMHO, because the package fails to achieve its main goal which is providing accurate information. I agree that your mileage may vary, but I was really puzzled to see that simple fixes were not corrected, leading /me to conclude that the package is not actively maintained. So, the main point of the bug is suggesting its removal from the archive for that reason. > > This package, which is apparently very loosely maintained is currently > > providing outdated and possibly misleading data. > > Where did you get the information that it is loosely maintained from? > I agree that it has not been updated for some time, but I have not had any > really important bugs on it either. ISO-3166 changes since last upload and the only purpose of the package is giving information about it. So, my conclusion was drawn: loosely maintained package. Last changes in ISO-3166: - MD renamed to "Moldova" - Added Saint-barthélémy and Saint-Martin - several changes to official names of countries (Nepal, Bahrain, Moldova) but maybe countrycodes doesn't care about official names - Numeric code updated for Serbia .../... > > > The ISO-3166 codes have changed since last updates and no update for the > > package came to correct this. See also #492014 for misleading data. > > Yes true. However as you also probably know we have had freeze for some time > and during that time no corrections for "normal" bugs are accepted. This could > partly be treated as documentation but I'm not sure it will be accepted. They would, imho. We had some updates for iso-codes that were accepted so you can for sure ask for freeze exceptions. > > I think that, as is, this package should not be shipped with lenny but > > either be completely dropped from the archive is noones wants to maintain > > it, or modified to avoid using an internal reference list but rather > > iso-codes' XML data (and then have the package depend on iso-codes). > > I do not agree. Countrycodes is packaged version of the "upstream" > countrycodes > software. This is the only intention of this package. Well, still, I'm not sure that this upstream is still alive. So, probably you deserve my apologies: the package is not loosely maintained, but upstream is...:-) > As you can see from popcon the countrycodes package is fairly popular > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=countrycodes Well, it was even installed on my system, for a reason I can't explain....and without me to be aware of this (I very well may have installed it very logn time ago, even before iso-codes came out) > > I can see that isoquery is more popular which could vote for a drop of > countrycodes > but let us take that after Lenny in that case. Agreed. Still, you can probably patch countrycodes to reflect the last changes in ISO-3166 and I think it would be accepte for lenny, even though this is code.
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