Re: unicode-data transition

[Matthias Geiger <werdahias@riseup.net>]

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

According to 
[0] there 
are 7 packages that require direct coordination as they only build with 
one major version of unicode-data.

So a minor transition with those is needed TTBOMK.

best,

werdahias

Links:

[0]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Emoji#unicode-data_packaging