Akka - Arabic Console package
Hello,
[warning: this is my first post!]
I am packaging the software package 'Akka', which is an Arabic console
for linux (http://www.arabeyes.org/projects/akka.php). I have a couple
of questions though:
1. In the New Maintainer's Guide, it explicitly says not to put anything
on */sbin.. however, Akka is a rather unique piece of software and does
some very low-level manipulation (filtering out I/O from the terminal to
display Arabic). It is our (mine, and the upstream) opinion that it
should go into /sbin. If that is not acceptable, what is the second-best
choice?
2. Akka comes with a modified us-latin1.map and its own arabic.map,
along with a bunch of other keymaps (for ibook, pc, etc.). I initially
decided to put it in /usr/share/keymaps/akka/, since we consider Akka to
be its own architecture. Someone pointed out that I should coordinate
with the maintainer of /usr/share/keymaps first, but I am not sure who
that is. So, if you are that person, or someone who knows who they are,
please let me know if that could be problematic.
P.S. Many thanks to Gergley Nagy for auditing my package. His comments
and suggestions are invaluable, and have shown what a great environment
it is to work with Debian Developers.
Thank you.
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