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Bug#270720: Reassign bug



On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 08:06:41AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> reassign 270720 base-config
> retitle 270720 Should make use of libfribidi0 when available for displaying messages
> thanks

> The bug log for 270720 is quite long. The last messages seem to
> indicate that the bug reporter isolated the bug to base-config not
> piping its messages through libfribidi0.

> Hence, I reassign this bug to base-config though I'm not completely
> sure it pertains to this package only.

If the only bug is the log of base-config, I don't think this is a bug
at all; there's no reason that logfiles should be preprocessed for text
direction -- that's the whole point of supporting bidi in Unicode, after
all.  Rather, anyone looking at the logs should be using a bidi-aware
terminal or other bidi-capable tools.

The fact that we don't have a bidi-capable terminal can probably be
regarded as a bug,

> The bug suggested enabling the Unicode terminal to 2nd and 3rd
> console, also...

and this problem is a result of the same bug; but as previously
discussed, fixing it would probably raise the memory requirements of the
installer and needs to be looked at carefully.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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