libunistring0 has not been updated since 2010

[BobPendleton]

Libunistring is updated by FSF for every new version of Unicode. The current version of libunistring is 0.9.6 and has support for unicode version 9. The version shipped with Ubuntu is 0.9.3 which supports Unicode 7. Since the lib was last updated Unicode has added more than 14,000 new code points which includes emoji support. Because of the number of Ubuntu packages that depend on libunistring I believe that it should be updated every time a new version is released, which is usually yearly following the release schedule of Unicode versions.

Libunistring in Ubuntu has not been updated since 2010.

Thank You for Ubuntu.

Bob Pendleton

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libunistring0 0.9.3-5.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Sep 21 14:35:34 2016
Dependencies:
 gcc-6-base 6.0.1-0ubuntu1
 libc6 2.23-0ubuntu3
 libgcc1 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1
 multiarch-support 2.23-0ubuntu3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-16 (613 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libunistring
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-19 (124 days ago)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I see that libunistring 0.9.8-1 has been packaged in Debian (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libunistring). However, the Ubuntu package seems to have some additional patches (0.9.3-5.2ubuntu1), so it is possible this will need a manual merge.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

I'm sorry it took so long to receive a reply about this bug report.

However I am going to close it because there is nothing actionable here.
That error you reported is incredibly unhelpful, and it' not caused by anything from this package. We'd need to know what is asking dpkg to explicitly configure libunistring0 whilst already being done.
If you are still affected by this issue please contact user support to figure the best way forward; also most probably it's some kind of misconfiguration on your part anyway.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

ooops, managed to write this comment on the wrong bug report somehow -.-'

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

We are preparing the transition on
https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3141/+packages

We will publish it in some days