[Debian-hebrew-package] Packages update

[Baruch Even]

For fribidi I've taken the upstream tarballs, maybe the patch by Omer
Zak was pulled out later on?

Anyway, I'll see what I can do about updating the packages, can't
promise anything.

Baruch

kobi zamir wrote:
> This is stange:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 2002-03-16 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad.org <mailto:behdad at bamdad.org>>
> * Applied the FriBidiEnv patch from Omer Zak dated 2002-02-24,
> updated it with to reflect the new changes.
> * NOTE: These changes alter the interface, so are not recommended for
> any use before they are released.
> 
> Version 0.10.3 was released a month after this !
> But Debian's fribidi 0.10.5 Does not have this patch !?
> -----------------------------------
> 
> Omer Zak's patch chage the API of function fribidi_log2vis, it simply
> gives it more information.
> The function is not deprecated, it is still the main function to use,
> but it has a new API  (this will change in fribid2).
> 
> Debian use fribidi 0.10.5 but does NOT use Omer Zak's patch !?, this is
> the reason for
> the use of old API on debian/ubuntu. But this is the fribidi we have on
> debian, there is no good way around this problem because fribidi_log2vis
> _is_ the function to use here, but when we update the fribidi in debian
> we will have to update pyfribidi to use the new API.
> 
> By Kobi.
> 
> On 11/12/05, *Baruch Even* <baruch at ev-en.org <mailto:baruch at ev-en.org>>
> wrote:
> 
>     kobi zamir wrote:
>     > 2) PyFribidi 0.3. is out:
>     > http://hspell-gui.sourceforge.net/pyfribidi.html
>     >   a. this is a simple fribidi binding to python, it will be used to
>     > render RTL in the chaildsplay program,
>     >       so a a DEB package is NEEDED if we want Hebrew translation
>     to work
>     > while using childsplay on debian.
> 
>     Check the new versions of fribidi, I think they removed this function
>     from their interface! or at least deprecated it.
> 
>     Baruch
> 
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