Re: Unicode 7.0 released - some packages contain outdated embedded data copies

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> Please ask your upstreams to remove the Unicode data files from their
> version control systems and source tarballs and instead check for and
> use external Unicode data files at build-time or run-time. Then your
> packages can Build-Depend or Depend on the unicode-data binary package.
> If your package converts the Unicode data to another format at build
> time you should add a Built-Using header to the relevant binary
> packages. The fntsample package is an example of how to do this.
...
> Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
>    libidn (U)

This is a false positive -- libidn implements IDNA2003 (RFC3490 etc)
which has a hard dependency on Unicode 3.2.

/Simon