[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#852763: boost1.63: outdated embedded data copy: unicode-data

[Paul Wise]

Source: boost1.63
Severity: normal
Usertags: embed built-using

Unicode 9.0 was semi-recently released and unicode-data 9.0-1 was uploaded.

The boost1.63 source package contains embedded data copies of several
files from the unicode-data package:

boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/Scripts.txt
boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/PropList.txt
boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/DerivedCoreProperties.txt

Upstream appears to have converted those files into these files before
releasing the tarball. One of those files (query.hpp) is generated by a
python script that is not available in the source package, I think this
is therefore a severity serious bug but I'm not sure.

boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/query.hpp
boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/uppercase_table.hpp
boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/category_table.hpp
boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/script_table.hpp
boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode/lowercase_table.hpp

These files are then shipped in the libboost1.63-dev binary package.

Please ask upstream to remove the above files from the source package
and instead build-depend on the unicode-data binary package, convert the
relevant files to headers at build time and add a Built-Using header:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-built-using

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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