On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:21:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > (copy to Alastair McKinstry as slang packages maintainer, Shlomi > Loubaton as current worker on BIDI support for d-i and -boot as this > concern comes from Debian Installer needs) > > > * As of now, no new packages will be added to the base system. This > > means that packages in the base system *must not* change their > > package relationships. > > > > * Large changes to the base system must be cleared with the release > > team and the d-i team before being uploaded to unstable. > > > The recent work on BIDI (bi-directional language support), aimed at > getting right-to-left languages support in Debian Installer, is likely > to induce changes to slang packages. > > One of these will probably make some slang1 packages depend on > libfribidi0. I'm not sure of this because I'm not the one who tried to > implement BIDI support in slang (Shlomi Loubaton is), but I highly > suspect this. > > As a side effect this would make libfribidi0 a candidate for being in > the base system. Thus, I prefer mention all this as soon as possible, > of course...
Including libfribidi0 in the base system would have to be done as soon as possible to avoid repeatedly breaking old d-i images, which is a perpetual problem. You'll have to check with aj. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
