On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:04:27PM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote: > Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are > gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I > want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get > Arabic Support there ASAP :) > Your kind response is greatly appreciated Please see http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/slang/ for a fribidi-enabled slang udeb. Because fribidi is *not* enabled in the regular .deb, testing this library on a fully installed system requires unpacking the udeb by hand and loading the library (probably with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./unpacked-slang/lib/). This udeb can't be uploaded to unstable until there is also a udeb available for libfribidi0. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >>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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