Hi Luca, Do you use m17n lib or have you used it before?
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 20:42 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:28:37 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > I consider it a bug that a library depends on a database to be used. > First, because the database could be provided *directly* by the sysadmin > (thus without the need for the exact copy provided by the dependent > packages) and, second, because it means that a program linked to that > library will require the dependent packages. The programs that link to the m17n library do so to use the rules contained in m17n-db. > Recommends: are there exactly for that, especially given that "Emacs + > libm17n-0 + m17n-contrib + m17n-db" *does not work*, as explained by the > Debian maintainer in reply to the post above: No, that's not what I said. If you are typing in a particular script, you need the relevant font to see the correct results. This is applicable to other text layout libraries. > According to the reasoning used to solve #599643, why does libm17n-0 not > depend also on ttf-sinhala-lklug? It does not even Recommends: it... Pango or ICU do not depend on particular fonts either. cya, # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
