Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As mentioned on IRC, I believe it would be inappropriate to add > libfribidi0 to the base system at this stage, since this would be a > significant change to a very important library (libslang). Fortunately, > we can have d-i translated into Hebrew and Arabic *without* making any > changes to the base system, which is one reason why I feel this way. > For d-i, we only need a fribidi-enabled slang udeb, we don't need > fribidi support in the base system. > > This does mean that post-reboot, BIDI support will not be available in > debconf, but I think this is a reasonable goal for the first release of > Debian which contains any BIDI installation support at all, and it's > also compatible with commonly recognized translation priorities (install > manual + d-i stage 1, then stage 2 packages, then the rest).
I think this is a good compromise. Until now, Shlomi Loubaton's modified slang depends on libfribidi for all generated packages, but this is not really needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]