Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Christian Perrier]
> > Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the
> > "normal" slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As
> > the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that the
> > Release Manager, Antony Towns, decides about an exception.
>
> This is really sad. If we are going to have a chance to push Debian
> into the middle east and the arabic countries, we need to have BIDI
> support all the way.
>
> We should try to explain how important this is. I've been in contact
> with several that want to push Debian in Iran and Iraq, and we need
> proper Arabic installation for this to happen.
Not breaking debootstrap is also important; every time a package in the
base system grows a new dependency, it breaks old d-i images, making
consistent testing difficult.
You can certainly try to argue your case with the debootstrap
maintainer, but we have to draw a line somewhere or else we'll never
release, and we can't fix everything.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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