GNU bug report logs - #19503
most translations of proper names aren't being used

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>, Benno Schulenberg <bensberg <at> justemail.net>, 19503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 08:50:43 -0800

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
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> 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 at runtime completely?

We cannot do that blindly, since we lack version control history
from before 1992, which would make it appear that David J. MacKenzie
(who wrote many of these tools from scratch) contributed nothing.

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