On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:43:47PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> su, 2005-11-20 kello 10:16 -0800, Steve Langasek kirjoitti:
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:29:00PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > Given how Unicode compliance is a release goal for Etch, having 
> > > libfribidi0 in Recommends is not sufficient; it 
> > > really must show in Depends.

> > No.  "Unicode support" refers to applications functioning in a UTF-8 locale
> > as correctly as they do in a single-byte locale.

> And it indeed doesn't function correctly here.  Not putting libfribidi0
> as Depends breaks newt operation on UTF-8 locales, which in turns also
> affects debconf.  Without it, debconf does NOT work correctly under a
> UTF-8 locale using the 'dialog' front-end.

Then you should have said that (and in a separate bug report, no less)
instead of claiming that dependencies were missing.  If UTF-8 isn't working
right without lifribidi0, then something's buggy in the UTF-8 support,
because libfribidi0 should *not* be required for this.

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