Hello Bruno,

Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes:

> This problem comes from gnulib and was recently fixed in gnulib [1][2][3].
>
> Since new glibc versions get rolled out to millions of systems, I think
> it would be good to have a new libunistring release quickly.
>
> Bruno
>
> [1]
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-03/msg00000.html
> [2]
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=4af4a4a71827c0bc5e0ec67af23edef4f15cee8e
> [3]
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=74d9d6a293d7462dea8f83e7fc5ac792e956a0ad

Although I agree that this build issue affects many systems, I am not
sure if this is worth an immediate new release, because:
- these days, most people install this library as a distribution
  package, in particular if they are using glibc based systems
- since the above fixes only touch *.[ch] files, distributions could
  easily patch their packages without bootstrapping

So, my preference is to deliver it as part of potentially significant
run-time changes, such as synching with Unicode 10.

I wouldn't oppose if you handle the release ;-)

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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