Re: Release update
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:21:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> (copy to Alastair McKinstry as slang packages maintainer, Shlomi
> Loubaton as current worker on BIDI support for d-i and -boot as this
> concern comes from Debian Installer needs)
>
> > * As of now, no new packages will be added to the base system. This
> > means that packages in the base system *must not* change their
> > package relationships.
> >
> > * Large changes to the base system must be cleared with the release
> > team and the d-i team before being uploaded to unstable.
>
>
> The recent work on BIDI (bi-directional language support), aimed at
> getting right-to-left languages support in Debian Installer, is likely
> to induce changes to slang packages.
>
> One of these will probably make some slang1 packages depend on
> libfribidi0. I'm not sure of this because I'm not the one who tried to
> implement BIDI support in slang (Shlomi Loubaton is), but I highly
> suspect this.
>
> As a side effect this would make libfribidi0 a candidate for being in
> the base system. Thus, I prefer mention all this as soon as possible,
> of course...
Including libfribidi0 in the base system would have to be done as soon
as possible to avoid repeatedly breaking old d-i images, which is a
perpetual problem. You'll have to check with aj.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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