Comment 20 for bug 305905

I should not help ubuntu at all, as I swore - after realizing that nobody was going to provide a clear reply to the political side of this bug.

But for <insert your favourite god here> sake, I think you should not close bugs when they are there, and you just want to keep the software. It would be like closing all Xorg bugs because you're going to stick with Xorg in ubuntu.

The bug is there and could be fixed (I see more than one way, but as I said, I have good reasons not to waste time in helping here). You are supposed to leave it open undefinitely, until it gets the man power to be fixed. Yeah, just like any other bug.

Unless there is a good reason to _not wanting_ to fix it (that's what "wontfix" means) but you're supposed to provide a reason for that. I don't think there's a good reason: this is a bad bug in internationalization of ubuntu. When my Italian mother looks up "casa" on google she's looking for a house, not the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia. One sign of this bug, in the early times when I still used to believe in the ubuntu home page, was that my mother complained badly to me on the phone, about her computer "being all in English" and other people pressing her to stop listening to her crazy son, and switch to windows. Yes that's how the real world works. I resisted (actually, I just let her use windows for a while, and she happily returned to ubuntu) and my mother still has ubuntu but I had to "fix the bug" for her. I wonder if there are other Italian moms that can use ubuntu without their son/daughter/niece fixing this bug.

Not that I care at all anymore, I will not reopen the bug myself.