Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:48:05PM +0100, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:59:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel at planet.nl> wrote:
> > > Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
> > > > Jan Willem,
> > > > 
> > > > maybe you can do a rebuild yourself, with the patch?
> > > 
> > > I tried, but I know hardly anything about this "patching"
> > > business. Some files are patched by debian itself (from
> > > iceweasel_2.0.0.1+dfsg-2.diff.gz) when you apt-get source it. This
> > > obviously changes the line numbers that the Behdad-patch has in
> > > mind. Anyway several "hunks" fail.
> > > 
> > > I do not know how to deal with such a situation. Applying the
> > > patch to just the unpacked iceweasel_2.0.0.1+dfsg.orig.tar.gz also
> > > results in "failed hunks" (although fewer).
> > 
> > The patch being for 1.5, it is not surprising... That only means the
> > patch needs to be adapted.
> > 
> 
> Do we need/want this for ape and dove?

I'm not very fond of the idea to apply such a huge patch at this time of
the release process.

Mike