[Aptitude-devel] Bug#344161: aptitude with UNICODE+Bidi

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + help


2005-12-20 18:26 Christian Perrier:
>Quoting Daniel Burrows (dburrows at debian.org):
>
>
>> > Maybe trying in debian-l10n-arabic....the list is not deeply active,
>> > but that could be an occasion....
>>
>>   My worst nightmare for several years has been that someone would pop up
>> and demand bidirectional text support in aptitude.  Does that count?
>
>
>Arf...:-)
>
>Let's try to not leave the poor Daniel in his nightmare....
>
>debian-l10n-arabic and Arabeyes people, here's a very interesting
>horse to beat for you: how could we make aptitude BiDi friendly given
>that we have most of the needed bricks for this:
>
>-a good developer with deep knwoledge of his software
>-a decent library for BiDi (libfribidi) but maybe not with C++ stuff
>-motivated people (Arabeyes people?)
>-very soon a good translation (Ossama?)
>
>So, after putting some glue at the right places, there's nothing we
>cannot do, don't you think?
>
>PS for people added to this thread: aptitude is the now recommended
>tool for Debian packages installation, selection and general
>management. Daniel Burrows is aptitude's maintainer and Debian bug
>#344161 is a request for BiDi support in aptitude...

After 10+ years probably nevery going to happen, but anyway, tagging as
+help as an admission that the current devel resources are not enough to
tackle this.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>