Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 15:50, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 05/19/2009 09:50 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
>>> Are there countries not agreeing with each others regarding the
>>> official status of other countries (not like country A says country B
>>> is inside country A, but rather country A and country B disagree on
>>> the status of country C) ? Are there countries that disagree with the
>>> UN regarding the official status of a "geographic area" ?
>>
>> To answer your questions, yes, and yes.
>
> Then we're totally doomed :)

Why yes, yes we are.


>
> I mean, how could we hope to solve this kind of issue on our level if
> even those of the world can't ?

We muddle through.

>
> Anyway, sticking to the official internation standard list of
> countries maintained by UN (if such a list exists) seems much more
> neutral to me. We don't decide anything on countries, we use the
> decision of an official organization empowered to make such a
> decision.

Afaict there is no such list. I'd be happy to be wrong about this, though.



> By abandoning flags alltogether, we actually make a decision: we
> choose to side with those who don't agree with the UN.

No, we don't.

and afaict, the UN just muddles through, too. It flags lots of different 
flags but gives in to various powers when asked to.

Fun, huh?

Here's a short list of some of the flags which will cause problems in the 
world:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_active_autonomist_and_secessionist_movements


-sv