bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used

2015-01-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Just now I noticed that 'du --version | tail -2' produces here this: Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund), David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert kaj Jim Meyering. whereas I expected it to produce this: Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund), David MEKENZI (David MacKenzie), P

bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used

2015-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: ... > Also there is the more general point about how correct > it is to attribute a program to author(s) in any case, > as that tracked to a much more accurate level of detail > by git blame etc. Should we be removing output of > author names a

bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used

2015-01-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 04/01/15 16:50, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > ... >> Also there is the more general point about how correct >> it is to attribute a program to author(s) in any case, >> as that tracked to a much more accurate level of detail >> by git blame etc. S

bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used

2015-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: ... > BTW, it might have been nice to have the initial git commits > for these tools attributed to the original author. Hindsight and all that :) It would have been nice, indeed. When I agreed to do the job of maintaining the fileutils, textut