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... As mentioned on IRC, I believe it would be inappropriate to add libfribidi0 to the base system at this stage, since this would be a significant change to a very important library (libslang). Fortunately, we can have d-i translated into Hebrew and Arabic *without* making any changes to the base system, which is one reason why I feel this way. For d-i, we only need a fribidi-enabled slang udeb, we don't need fribidi support in the base system. This does mean that post-reboot, BIDI support will not be available in debconf, but I think this is a reasonable goal for the first release of Debian which contains any BIDI installation support at all, and it's also compatible with commonly recognized translation priorities (install manual + d-i stage 1, then stage 2 packages, then the rest). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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