[Debian-hebrew-package] Fwd: childsplay: Additional dependency

[Baruch Even]

Lior,

There is no need to have a special handling for Ubuntu, they *will*
inherit it almost by default if I understand it correctly.

Simply maintain the package to the regular Debian standards and they
will pick it up in their cycles.

Baruch

Lior Kaplan wrote:
> The PyFribidi package was added to our SVN
> (http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-hebrew/pkg/pyfribidi/)
> 
> Basically I used Stefan's package with very small changes (new upstream
> version). I'd like to keep is as similar to the ubuntu package as I can.
> Maybe even having us all working on a single package (so Ubuntu can just
> inheret it).
> 
> Stefan - thanks for your work on the package. The changelog was kept for
>  credit.
> 
> kobi zamir wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>This is a mail from *Stefan Potyra* about looking for pyfribidi package
>>sponsor for debian.
>>Since I'm not a debian developer and the maintenance will fall on you, I
>>ask you (Lior and Baruch) can we take sponsorship of this package for
>>debian ?
>>
>>By, Kobi
>>
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>From: *Stefan Potyra* <sistpoty at ubuntu.com <mailto:sistpoty at ubuntu.com>>
>>Date: Nov 17, 2005 12:09 AM
>>Subject: Re: childsplay: Additional dependency
>>To: stas at linux.isbeter.nl <mailto:stas at linux.isbeter.nl>
>>Cc: Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto at debian.org <mailto:sto at debian.org>>, Stefan
>>Potyra < daemon at poleboy.de <mailto:daemon at poleboy.de>>, kobi zamir
>><kobi.zamir at gmail.com <mailto:kobi.zamir at gmail.com>>
>>
>>Hi Sergio, Kobi and Stas,
>>
>>Am Sonntag 13 November 2005 15:49 schrieb Stas Z:
>>
>>>Hello Sergio and Stefan,
>>>
>>>As you hopefully saw on the childsplay mailinglist I released another
>>>version, 0.81.
>>>This release adds Hebrew language support and BIDI support.
>>>(BIDI is bidirectional, needed for right to left languages)
>>>For the BIDI support I've got help from Kobi Zamir who has written Python
>>>bindings to the freebidi library.
>>>From release 0.81 childsplay reconments pyfribidi >= 0.3 when running in a
>>>RTL environment.
>>>
>>>I hope you will considering maintaining pyfribidi in Debian/Ubuntu as
>>>it provides
>>>BIDI support not only to childsplay but to every Python program in need of
>>>RTL language support.
>>>Kobi already has made Debian and Ubuntu-breezy packages and you can
>>>reach him at kobi.zamir at gmail.com <mailto:kobi.zamir at gmail.com> if you
>>
>>would like to get his debian
>>
>>>dh_make tree or additional info.
>>>The pyfribidi homepage can be found here:
>>>http://hspell-gui.sourceforge.net/pyfribidi.html
>>
>>I've just cleaned up Kobis package: It uses cdbs now, builds for multiple
>>python versions and I've added a python-distutils setup.py.
>>
>>The (source)-package can be found at:
>>http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=942
>>
>>Kobi: Maybe you would like to adopt these changes into your repository.
>>(Please skip the debian/changelog entry from me, at least the
>>distribution-field (dapper); eventually you may wish to (re)set the
>>maintainer-field to yourself).
>>
>>Sergio: Would you like to maintain this package for debian? If not, I would
>>file an ITP (I haven't seen one for pyfribidi yet), but would still need a
>>sponsor for debian.
>>
>>For ubuntu, I can take "maintainership" for the package, also we actually
>>don't have a specific maintainer for a package in ubuntu.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>        Stefan.
>>
>>
>>
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