Bug#401533: MATHML and Indic scripts

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Bug #401533 is now already quite old, and the solution has been
available for about 9 months now. Why can't it be fixed in Debian?

At the moment I am engaged in an e-mail/html conversation with an
Indian mathematician. We need to have systems which can use MATHML
on both ends, and Indic alphabets on (at least) his end. But there
are endless problems. I could understand this if there were
unsurmountable technical problems. But a solution exists, and has
been implemented (> 9 months ago) in FC6. Why can't Debian use
this? The reason can't be a technical one. Is there another kind
of reason? E.g. a political one, of the same type which saddled us
with names like "iceape"? Please explain...

Regards, Jan