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

[Lior Kaplan]

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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Lior Kaplan
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http://www.Guides.co.il

Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID)