Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

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On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:44, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > passwd maintainers, what do you think about this?  The idea would be to
> > add a gender field in the GECOS, please see the bug log for details and
> > rationale.
> >
> >   http://bugs.debian.org/391717
>
> I personnally dislike the idea (why gender and why not religion or the
> like.....I think that the rationale of l10n is a bit haircutting,
> here). But, anyway, this is something that should be discussed with
> our upstream and he should discuss it with other distros.

i'd agree ... trying to solve the issue at hand (gender in l10n) by adding =
an=20
otherwise useless field to GECOS seems like the wrong approach to me
=2Dmike

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