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

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>]

Hi,

 Thanks, Alastair.

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:55:01 +0100
Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie> wrote:
> > 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):
> >
> >   * ibus
> >   * node-unicode-tr51
> >   * julia
> >   * node-unicode-property-aliases
> >   * node-unicode-property-value-aliases
> >   * cyrus-imapd
> >   * libxmlada
> >   * courier-unicode
> >   * node-unicode-property-aliases-ecmascript
> >   * *wine*
> >   * *slang2*
> >   * re2
> >   * fntsample
> >   * console-data
> >   * wine-development
> >   * utf8proc
> >   * node-unicode-property-value-aliases-ecmascript
> >   * gucharmap
> >   * node-unicode-data
> >   * fonttools
> >   * wcwidth
> >   * jing-trang
> >
> I'm suprised to see unicode-data 12.0.0 transition to testing today; I 
> had expected it to be blocked, and was testing all the reverse-deps 
> (listed above).
> 
> I've tested them all against 12.1.0~pre1-1 (in experimental, with the 
> Reiwa changes).  They work, except for:
> 
> libxmlada, utf8proc, gucharmap,  node-unicode-data. julia also failed 
> for me, but on a local(?) unrelated issue.

  gucharmap can be built with small patch (will push MR for it).


> Time to go file RC bugs.

 Are those FTBFS for unicode-data 12.0.0, too?


-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp