Bug#927958: [pre-a] unblock: utf8proc/2.3.0-1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Mo Zhou:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package utf8proc
> 
> (explain the reason for the unblock here)
> 
> I'm astonished that the unicode (11.* -> 12.*) transition happend at
> such a deep freeze stage. utf8proc is tightly coupled with the
> unicode-data version, and the new unicode-data version incured FTBFS:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=927941
> 
> The simplest way to fix this bug is to bump utf8proc to 2.3.0
> 
> (include/attach the debdiff against the package in testing)
> 
> According to upstream NEWs/changelog
> https://github.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc/commit/eb39b060e7e518941a912e1f51bae1cc6316f547
> And the commit history (97ef668 -> 454f601)
> https://github.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc/commits/master
> The major change from 2.2.0 (testing) to 2.3.0 (not yet packaged)
> is the support for unicode-data (= 12). There is no breaking change.
> So I request an unblock for 2.3.0-1
> 
> unblock utf8proc/2.3.0-1
> 
> [...]
> 

Please include a full debdiff of the changes.  The link to a master
branch with no clear marking of start/end commits makes it too time
consuming for us to evaluate the request.

Thanks,
~Niels