Comment 20 for bug 191241

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:32:57PM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> 1) bidiv: the source package in Fedora was patched to be able to compile
> with fribidi 0.19.1
>
> 2) centerim: fribidi was not enabled in Fedora source package. Hence no
> problem appeared.
>
> 3) mailutils: this package does not seem to exist in Fedora. Yet I'm not
> sure if this package will have a problem in Debian/Ubuntu (please read
> the previous email, quoted above)
>
> 4) text-bidi: this package does not seem to exist in Fedora, also I am
> not really sure if this one is a problem. Since it is a sort of Perl
> bindings for fribidi.
---end quoted text---

Regarding mailutils, please note that the check for HAVE_FRIBIDI_WCWIDTH
was introduced in the latest release which is currently in Debian
testing, I just compiled mailutils 2.1 against fribidi 0.19.2, and it
compiled. Yet compiling mailutils 2.0 (currently in Debian stable &
Ubuntu karmic) against fribidi 0.19.2 will FTBFS.

So to conclude, I see two solutions:

1) That Debian/Ubuntu do as Fedora, and patch the few apps (probably
only bidiv & centerim will need patching) that use obsolete fribidi
symbols. Note that centerim will also need a small patch very similar to
the one used for bidiv. Also if fribidi is to be backported to older
releases, then mailutils will need to be patched too.

2) Fribidi would SO bump.

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