its a build fix... anyway, its a library, so not that easy to test, but I picked up gnome-characters, one of its reverse-dependencies that uses a lot of unicode, and it still works
gnome-characters Gtk-Message: 09:13:35.039: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: 09:13:35.039: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gjs-Message: 09:13:35.042: JS LOG: Characters Application started Gjs-Message: 09:13:38.057: JS LOG: Characters Application exiting dpkg -l |grep unistr ii libunistring2:amd64 0.9.10-1ubuntu1.18.10.1 amd64 Unicode string library for C ii libidn11:amd64 1.33-2.2ubuntu1.1 amd64 GNU Libidn library, implementation of IETF IDN specifications ii libidn2-0:amd64 2.0.5-1 amd64 Internationalized domain names (IDNA2008/TR46) library to test libidn I installed and started successfully vlc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libunistring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813587 Title: libunistring and libidn ftbfs on 18.04 LTS Status in libidn package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in libunistring package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in libidn source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in libunistring source package in Bionic: Fix Released Status in libidn source package in Cosmic: Fix Committed Status in libunistring source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Status in libunistring package in Debian: New Bug description: Impact ------ libunistring doesn't build from source which means someone would need to fix that problem before fixing any bugs in the libunistring package for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Test Case --------- Does libunistring build successfully? Regression Potential -------------------- We are simply backporting the workaround we applied in Ubuntu 19.04. Original Bug Report ------------------- according to http://people.canonical.com/~doko/ftbfs-report/test-rebuild-20181222-bionic.html libunistring ftbfs. FAIL: test-thread_create ======================== glthread_create failed FAIL test-thread_create (exit status: 1) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libidn/+bug/1813587/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp