[Bug 1989626] Re: UIFe: fonts-noto-color-emoji & other updates for Unicode 15

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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 <jbicha at ubuntu.com>  Fri, 16 Sep 2022 07:19:16 -0400

** Changed in: fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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

Status in fonts-noto-color-emoji package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Justification
  -------------
  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
  ------------
  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
  ------------------------
  fonts-noto-color-emoji
  glib2.0

  Other packages needed but don't affect UI
  -----------------------------------------
  node-unicode-data
  utf8proc
  maybe more universe packages

  Declined changes
  ----------------
  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
  ---------
  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
  ----------
  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.

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