Re: World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Alastair has already uploaded -3, it's sitting in the NEW queue on > ftp-master right now. It's being blocked at my request, because it OK, I forgot the package is maintained by Alastair (seems to me that the name on the bug page is different...maybe

Re: World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:47:59AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I've submitted an updated patch to bug #252956 which now uses dlopen() > > to load the fribidi routines. This means, once the patch is applied, we > > will immediately have opportu

Re: World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've submitted an updated patch to bug #252956 which now uses dlopen() > to load the fribidi routines. This means, once the patch is applied, we > will immediately have opportunistic bidi text support in debconf *and* > d-i! But, will this patch be

Re: World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:10:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Do we have this much space available on all of our initrd images? (Can > > someone tell me which images are tightest on space?) > The stats.txt in the daily build dir is supposed to tell us this kinda > thing.

Re: World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-09 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > Do we have this much space available on all of our initrd images? (Can > someone tell me which images are tightest on space?) The stats.txt in the daily build dir is supposed to tell us this kinda thing. I've just corrected some innacuracies for images without kernels, lik

World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello world! Although the progress we made on this task during DebConf4 itself was in some ways a bit disappointing, I'm happy to report that we now have preliminary packages of slang with support for bi-directional text (Hebrew & Arabic) and font shaping (Arabic). For some beautiful screenshots,