Bug#917909: [text-based installer] right-to-left writing direction broken

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 newt
Control: fixed -1 0.52.17-1
Control: found -1 0.52.19-1

Hello,

Holger Wansing, le lun. 31 déc. 2018 16:15:12 +0100, a ecrit:
> While investigating an old bugreport regarding Hebrew, I found that RTL writing
> direction is completely broken in the text-based installer
> (writing direction seems left-to-right and text is aligned to the left).
> 
> That's also the case in Stretch, while it was ok in Jessie installer!

Indeed, I can confirm this.  I tried to copy the Jessie libnewt.so.0.52
into a Stretch image, and it fixes the issue, so I believe the
regression is within the newt package, thus somewhere between newt
0.52.17-1 and 0.52.19-1.

Samuel