Re: embedded copies of Unicode data?
Hi,
I'd like to point out we have a package unicode-data, which has the
up-to-date unicode data files in it. I think we should file wishlist
bugs against packages using their own copies of this data.
Regards
Alastair McKinstry
<mckinstry@debian.org>
> There are several copies of the Unicode data files in the archive,
> examples:
>
> charmap.app:
> /usr/lib/GNUstep/Applications/Charmap.app/Resources/UnicodeData.txt
> charmap.app: /usr/share/doc/charmap.app/UnicodeData.txt.gz
> clisp: /usr/lib/clisp-2.44.1/data/UnicodeDataFull.txt
> gnulib: /usr/share/gnulib/tests/uniname/UnicodeDataNames.txt
> libcamomile-ocaml-data:
> /usr/share/doc/libcamomile-ocaml-data/UnicodeData.html
> libopensrs-perl: /usr/share/opensrs/RACE/RACE/UnicodeData-Latest.txt
> libsaxonb-java-doc:
> /usr/share/doc/libsaxon8-java-doc/api/net/sf/saxon/codenorm/UnicodeData.html
> moodle: /usr/share/moodle/lib/typo3/unidata/UnicodeData.txt
> perl-modules: /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt
> pypy-dev:
> /usr/share/pypy-1.0/pypy/module/unicodedata/UnicodeData-3.2.0.txt
> pypy-dev:
> /usr/share/pypy-1.0/pypy/module/unicodedata/UnicodeData-4.1.0.txt
> pypy-dev:
> /usr/share/pypy-1.0/pypy/module/unicodedata/UnicodeData-5.0.0.txt
> rails:
> /usr/share/doc/rails/html/classes/ActiveSupport/Multibyte/UnicodeDatabase.html
> typo3-src-4.2:
> /usr/share/typo3/typo3_src-4.2/t3lib/unidata/UnicodeData.txt
> typo3-src-4.3:
> /usr/share/typo3/typo3_src-4.3/t3lib/unidata/UnicodeData.txt
>
> In addition, some of the following packages appear to embed copies of
> the Unicode data in their source code:
>
> http://source.debian.net/source/search?q=IMIFTHORON&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=
> http://source.debian.net/source/search?q=LHAVIYANI&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=
>
> In addition, there is a copy of parts of the Unicode data in
> fonttools, gucharmap, libuninameslist and probably others.
>
> I'm wondering what, if anything, Debian should do about this
> situation. We generally don't like embedded code copies, but I'm not
> sure if the same arguments apply to embedded data copies.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> In addition, the CMap and AGLFN data are in similar situations, but I
> think they are embedded in much fewer packages.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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>
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