Re: Diff between Helix/Debian GNOME (was Re: Helix debian package s)
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 02:40:34AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:05:16 -0400,
> Peter Teichman <peter@helixcode.com> wrote:
>
> > > I used Helix GNOME and I have no idea what does it mean "enhancing" and
> > > "improving" in case of Helix debian packages.
> > > Event after an analyzying changelogs.
> > > Sure, two pictures are nicer and more icons.
> >
> > In most cases, we don't change packages at all. We just provide a
> > well-defined set of GNOME and GTK+ apps as a desktop environment. The
> > few things we do change are default settings that the upstream
> > maintainers want to keep the way they are currently.
>
> I have just heard that Helix version of gedit can treat multibyte
> languages while Debian version cannot. Though I have not tested
> Helix one, I eager that Helix improvement is united to the upstream
> (or Debian packages, if packaging is responsible), since a text
> editor without multibyte support is almost useless for CJK people
> including me.
If this is the case, it is a new feature in the upstream gedit. We
don't patch that package at all.
Peter
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