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Re: unicode-data transition



On Tuesday, December 2, 2025 1:27:02 AM Mountain Standard Time Alastair 
McKinstry wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to plan a transition for unicode-data 16.0.0 -> 17.0.0
> 
> Version 17 is now in experimental, and by design this *should* be a
> trivial upgrade: the package ships tables of data that should be
> extended only, no drop in functionality or change in format.
> 
> However see #1113798, a transition is preferred as strict version
> locking in some packages (notably utf8proc) causes issues.
> 
> I would appreciate advice on how to do this. Some packages have
> "Build-Using: " metadata on unicode-data:
> 
> $ grep-aptavail -F Built-Using -s Package,Built-Using -r 'unicode-data'
> 
> reveals:
> 
>     courier-unicode

I am the maintainer of courier-unicode.  I asked upstream if he anticipated 
that building against 17.0.0 would cause any problems.

https://github.com/svarshavchik/courier-libs/issues/52

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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