Bug#684260: zh_TW translations of "package", "repository" and "dependency" are mistranslated.

Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:42:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general,gmane.linux.debian.user.chinese.big5
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quoting Yao Wei (魏銘廷) ([email protected]):
> Well. As I previously reported that the mistranslation is kept using
> for more than 20 years that almost becomes a proper noun.
> The question is that should we make the change?
> 
> Some points:
> 
> * If the translation of the basis noun changed, there will be a long
> transition period because all the documents are under transition, and
> this may cause a big bang between Traditional Chinese dpkg existing
> users.
> * If not, it stays not an error by every existing users, but new users
> may be confused by the translations.

Well, all the 3 words you mention in Subject are transverse to all
distros. If they are used like this for 20 years in most of them, I
think we can call this "established usage" and, even if not accurate,
it's probably better to leave things as is.
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