I am travelling and posting from my mobile. Can some body please take this up? Pravi? No access to even my address book. :-( we are going to have a real bad name in the ml community if squeeze is out with oo.o rendering like this.
On 22/11/2010, Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> wrote: > There is a bug in ICU 4.4, for which we have a small and minimally > invasive patch, that causes OpenOffice.org rendering of Malayalam to not > work. The reporter argues that the bug makes the package unusable for > at least one set of users (those who work in Malayalam). I've attached > the latest bit of the email trail to this message. As such, I have > suggested that the bug should be considered "grave". > > The patch is to revert a particular change set's changes to one file: > > http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/26090/icu/trunk/source/layout/IndicReordering.cpp > > Red Hat has apparently accepted this solution. Their bug report is > here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654200 > > I don't see an upstream report on this at this time, but the discussion > in the Red Hat bug report seems to indicate a thorough analysis. > > Unfortunately, the version of ICU in squeeze is 4.4.1-6 and the version > in sid is 4.4.2-1. I therefore can't upload to unstable and request a > freeze exception unless we were prepared to accept 4.4.2-1's changes in > squeeze (which . I would prepare a 4.4.1-7 release for > testing-proposed-updates, or this could be handled in a point release of > squeeze. > > I've copied the reporter so he can clarify/correct anything I may have > said here. > > Please advise as to whether I should upload a to t-p-u. I'll upload to > unstable either way. > > --Jay > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikbqkcbpkbyfbpzvarylxlgzum8mmv+bqvdm...@mail.gmail.com
