Re: [bug-libunistring] [PATCH] unicase: Add missing prefix/suffix-context modules

[Daiki Ueno]

Hello Bruno,

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Genki Sky wrote:
>> These gnulib modules contain the following 12 functions:
>> - u{8,16,32}_casing_{prefix,suffix}_context
>> - u{8,16,32}_casing_{prefix,suffix}es_context
>> 
>> As it stands, these functions were exposed in the header files, but were
>> not available in the shared object. Of course, this resulted in linker
>> errors.
>
> Thanks for the report. Part of the fix goes into gnulib:
>
>
> 2018-04-07  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>
>       unicase/u*-context: Fix link errors with libunistring <= 0.9.9.
>       Reported by Genki Sky <address@hidden>.
>       * modules/unicase/u8-prefix-context (configure.ac): Require libunistring
>       version 0.9.10 or newer.
>       * modules/unicase/u8-suffix-context (configure.ac): Likewise.
>       * modules/unicase/u16-prefix-context (configure.ac): Likewise.
>       * modules/unicase/u16-suffix-context (configure.ac): Likewise.
>       * modules/unicase/u32-prefix-context (configure.ac): Likewise.

While I am glad to see this has been fixed, I now wonder when we should
increase the version number and whether the above list is complete.

Usually, I bump the required version when there is any change in the
dependent modules since the last release, using the scripts:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunistring.git;a=blob;f=Admin/README.update;h=76c9925c2cb63b86b6bbdc62037706c95ac399ed;hb=HEAD#l45

However, I don't see such changes since 0.9.8.  Could you elaborate why
this change is appropriate, for future improvements of the release
process?

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno