Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed
>Shlomi Loubaton did some work on BIDI (BI-DIrectional langauges
>support) for Debian Installer.
>
>He hacked the slang libraries so that some handling of BIDI is added
>to it.
>
>This will probably need adding the libfribidi0 library to Debian
>Installer. Thus a libfribidi0-udeb package will probably need to be
>generated by the fribidi source package to be included in some Debian
>Installer initrds....
>
>I tried to modifiy the fribidi source package to have it generated
>this udeb, but failed to do so, and I have to give this up for at
>least two days.
>
>Can someone with good knowledge of packaging have a look into this and
>try to produce a patch for the fribidi package for having it generate
>a libfribidi0-udeb package. This udeb should have just ONE file�:
>/usr/lib/libfribidi0.so.0.0.0
>
>Copy to Baruch Even, the fribidi package maintainer....
>
I have done so ; its present in
http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/fribidi for testing
- Alastair
Will diff out the patch and forward to Baruch Evan
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