Bug#503735: gnome-chess: menus only work in English language locales

[Mark Purcell]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 05:39:20 Peter De Wachter wrote:
> But issues which "[make] the package in question unusable by most or
> all users" are severity grave. I'd argue most users (certainly most
> desktop users) don't use an English locale, as most people don't use
> English as their native language. But I admit there's a fuzzy area
> between important and grave.

I don't admit it isn't important, but I do question if it is release critical.  
Especially if the package hasn't supported non en locals in the past.

> > Did you even try it?  I get failed assertions in the console and the
> > program does neither work with LANG=C nor LC_ALL=C for me.
>
> That's probably #472866.

In the comment for #472866 & #503735 you state fixes have been applied to svn, 
but then question the need for the package to remain in debian as there are 
better alternatives.

Given that one is a RC bug and that is holding out release of lenny, could I 
ask you as maintainer to either upload the patched version fixing these two 
bugs, or request the package removal from lenny on quality grounds as there 
are better alternatives available.

Mark