Source: libunibreak Version: 1.1-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
while there aren't any known grave issues with the packaged version 1.1, released 2013, this is severely lagging behind upstream's newest version 5.0 released in late 2021. Upgrading to 5.0 brings the benefit of an updated linebreaking behaviour following the current revision of Unicode and additional API-entrypoints and new API regarding graphemes and pictographics. Thus I believe it would be a good idea to upgrade; patches to update the Debian package to 5.0 are attached (also fixing lintian warnings). One noteworthy incompatible change is that in 5.0 the signature of the set_linebreaks (without suffix) function from linebreakdef.h changed its signature. However as far as I can tell currently the only user of libunibreak in the Debian archives is libzltext, which does not use this function, so this is probably not an issue. https://github.com/adah1972/libunibreak/commit/a6bcee2daf6fb884edd1ff78ce58521ab31f9826 $ ls -l ~1/libzltext.so.0.13 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 20 1. Sep 2019 /tmp/libzltext.so.0.13 -> libzltext.so.0.12.10 $ nm -gDC ~1/libzltext.so.0.12.10 | grep -E '^ +U' | grep -E 'lb_|ub_|unibreak|break' U init_linebreak U set_linebreaks_utf8 The patches are split in 6 parts in hopes to make review easier. As one of the patches is large'ish (~1.5MiB) due to adding some data files otherwise fetched from the network, I compressed all of them into a xz-compressed tar-archive before attaching. Some further notes: The changelog is using the ~local suffix and my own name; this will need to be changed to reflect the actual uploader and drop the suffix. Upstream tarballs contain prebuilt documentation including some javascript, to resolve the errors resulting from the sourceless javascript I'm using Files-Excluded to repackage the tarball without the docs. This works, but perhaps there's a softer approach to resolve this? It appears like most packages, include a copyright declaration for debian/* with past and current maintainers as copyright holders; this package does not, but obviously I cannot choose a licence for someone else. If this is required, what licence did/do you intend Eugene? I made sure to resolve all lintian hints >= pedantic, but I only packaged for my personal use before, so there might be some things I missed and not caught by lintian, or just superior alternative approaches I don't know about. Nonetheless I'm hoping the patches are helpful in getting the package back in sync with upstream. Cheers Nils König -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug' ), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: OpenRC (via /run/openrc), PID 1: openrc-init LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libunibreak1 depends on: ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2
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