[Debian-hebrew-package] Packages update
Baruch Even
baruch at ev-en.org
Sat Nov 12 22:51:45 UTC 2005
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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