Bug#481508: some investigations

[Paul Wise]

I'd completely forgotten I'd filed this bug, thanks to you both for
following up.

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:24 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> The various .pl files in /usr/share/perl/5.10/unicore are generated at
> build time from the .txt files. The .txt files are also used runtime at
> least by Unicode::UCD, possibly others. The chance for them to go out
> of sync doesn't seem appealing.

Upstreams tend to use similar arguments for keeping embedded copies of
shared libraries, or sticking to an old version of a scripting language.

> A somewhat related upstream thread is
> 
>  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2009-01/msg00585.html
> 
> which shows at least that UCD upgrades are not quite a trivial matter
> for perl.
> 
> Decoupling UCD from the perl core would mean an extra maintenance burden
> upstream (ensuring the code and tests keep working with different UCD
> versions), and I'm not very comfortable proposing that.

Thanks for the pointer to that thread. It looks like the outcome of that
was that the unicore stuff is considered internal and subject to change
at any time.

Anyway, I'm going to send a mail to debian-devel about embedded copies
of the Unicde and AGLFN data. It turns out there are quite a few copies
of the Unicode data in the archive. I'd appreciate it if you could both
participate in the thread.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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