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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