UIFe: fonts-noto-color-emoji & other updates for Unicode 15

Bug #1989626 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Justification
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Unicode 15 was release September 13. This is an annual release. It's expected that the latest Ubuntu will support the latest stable Unicode release. This is required for compatibility with Internet communications with other platforms that will be quickly adopting the new emoji characters.

The release happened too late for related upstream releases to happen by Ubuntu's User Interface Freeze on September 15 and be packaged.

Therefore, I request a UIFe for Ubuntu 22.10 for Unicode 15 packages.

More details
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Google released their updated fonts-noto-color-emoji Friday.

We also need to update glib so that new non-emoji Unicode characters are handled correctly.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/2877

There are probably some other minor universe packages that we should sync from Debian if we see they are related to Unicode 15.

I don't have packaging ready for these changes yet but I'm requesting the UIFe early.

UI affecting packages
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fonts-noto-color-emoji
glib2.0

Other packages needed but don't affect UI
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utf8proc
node-unicode-property-aliases
node-unicode-property-aliases-ecmascript
node-unicode-property-value-aliases
node-unicode-property-value-aliases-ecmascript
node-unicode-data which will start a small transition
  node-esutils
  node-json5
  node-regenerate-unicode-properties
  node-regexpu-core
  node-regjsparser
maybe more universe packages

Declined changes
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harfbuzz - doesn't appear to be a critical need and our kinetic version is too old. harfbuzz will be updated for Ubuntu 23.04

22.04 LTS
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We have done SRUs of new fonts-noto-color-emoji releases to older LTSes before. We may do it again but that will be one or more separate bugs.

References
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https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-15-0/

https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/09/updates-to-emoji-new-characters-animation-colors-and-more.html

https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/

Email to Docs List:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2022-September/020889.html

I don't believe translators need to be notified about this UIFe but let me know if I should email them anyway.

Tags: kinetic
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
description: updated
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tags: added: kinetic
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Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

This is fine, but I'd like to have an exact list of packages that need changes (or rebuilds), either as an 'affects as' or a list in the description.

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Okay, this is at least something. The list doesn't seem terrible - the 'maybe more universe packages' worries me but I'll assume you'll perform due diligence and take care of all that are needed. FFe/UIFe approved!

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package fonts-noto-color-emoji - 2.038-1

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fonts-noto-color-emoji (2.038-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1989626)
    - This major update introduces support for the Unicode 15 standard
      https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-15-0/
  * Bump minimum nototools
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.1

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 07:19:16 -0400

Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
description: updated
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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