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

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@debian.org>]

On May 7, 2019 at 3:45AM +0900, henrich (at iijmio-mail.jp) wrote:
>>  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. 
> 
>  Status update...

I updated the mhc package (schedule management tool for Emacs).

 * mhc: fixed in buster 1.2.1-2
   - https://tracker.debian.org/news/1039095/accepted-mhc-121-2-source-all-into-unstable/
   - https://tracker.debian.org/news/1039366/mhc-121-2-migrated-to-testing/

Also, simile-timeline seems fixed in buster.

cf. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/simile-timeline
    https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=reiwa&DEFAULTOP=and&B=Gdebian-devel-changes&SORT=0&HITSPERPAGE=100
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/linux.debian.bugs.dist/reiwa%7Csort:date

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita