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Re: Unicode 7.0 released - some packages contain outdated embedded data copies



On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> Make it generic, instead.  You could just automatize the table update
> through a script, and allow it to either fetch the data over the network
> using curl/wget/whatever (default), or to get the data from a local file.

That would indeed be the best way to do it, some packages already do
IIRC. In any case the data shouldn't be embedded in the upstream
VCS/tarball since it is externally maintained and can therefore easily
get out of date.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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