Re: Handling Japanese new era "令和 (Reiwa)"

[Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie>]

Hi

On 12/04/2019 10:32, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> On 09/04/2019 02:18, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> > Hi,
> Hi
> >   I've noticed that Japan renews its era from 平成 (Heisei) to 令和 (Reiwa)
> >   (U+32FF) at 1st May and it's necessary to update some packages to deal
> >   with it.
> >
> >   > To Release Managers
> >   How do we handle with it for buster? (and stretch?)
> >
> >   > Folks
> >   Some packages list to be updated as far as I know
> >   Please let me know if you've noticed more
> >
> >
> >    - unicode-data [2]
> >
> >
> > [1]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22964
> >      (debian)$ LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf8 date +%EY -d 20190501
> >                 平成31年
> >      (fedora)$ LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf8 date +%EY -d 20190501
> >                 令和元年
> > [2] Unicode 12.1 contains "令和"
>
> unicode-data in Buster is currently at 11.0.0; there being a major  
> release upstream 12.0.0 just after Buster freeze.
>
> I've uploaded 12.0.0 to unstable; 12.1 is not officially released yet.  
> unicode-data itself is small and easy to validate, but the following  
> packages will need to be rebuilt as they build-depend on unicode-data  
> (and typically hard-code the tables internally):
I've uploaded unicode-data 12.1.0~pre1-1 to experimental.

This includes Unicode-data 12.0.0 updated with the Reiwa changes from  
12.1.0 directory on Unicode-data; there is no official 12.1.0 release yet.

The way unicode-data is patched/built, the changed files are in the  
upstream tarball UCD.zip ( + allkeys.txt and depcomp.txt). So I've put a  
file debian/reiwa.patch in the debian dir to document the changes. Only  
the files changing for ReiWa are changing (from what I can tell, the  
only changes in the other files in the upstream are version  
numbers/dates in comment lines on other other files).

Please test if this is suitable for Buster.

Best regards

Alastair






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