On 2/21/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:49:47AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Btw, I'm curious, about what the situation regarding > utf8-migration-tool is. My understanding was that fjp and bubulle > support including this one with Etch to help users migrating from > earlier releases, but earlier requests to this list on this issue > remain unanswered. Frans and Christian have supported the *principle* of having such a tool included in etch, but neither has indicated that they're able to speak for the quality of this *particular* tool. That makes it difficult to judge that allowing this new package in is a safe change that improves Debian, because there's a lack of information available, and this is precisely the sort of tool that screams "will cause data loss if anything goes wrong."
That affirmation is unsubstanciated.
Successful use reports from folks using this package in Debian might tip the balance; but in the absence of bug reports, "works good" is indistinguishable from "no one's using it".
There's been plenty of bug reports early on and all issues brought up were fixed. Tests were also made with a variety of locales. At worst, in a few rare cases, the tool reported being unable to process the input files. So, no, it doesn't cause data loss. As for "no one's using it", there's ample Popularity Contest" data to disqualify that statement. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
