On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Christian Perrier] > > Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the > > "normal" slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As > > the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that the > > Release Manager, Antony Towns, decides about an exception. > > This is really sad. If we are going to have a chance to push Debian > into the middle east and the arabic countries, we need to have BIDI > support all the way. > > We should try to explain how important this is. I've been in contact > with several that want to push Debian in Iran and Iraq, and we need > proper Arabic installation for this to happen.
Not breaking debootstrap is also important; every time a package in the base system grows a new dependency, it breaks old d-i images, making consistent testing difficult. You can certainly try to argue your case with the debootstrap maintainer, but we have to draw a line somewhere or else we'll never release, and we can't fix everything. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
