Bug#757025: transition: icu

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 11:59:50AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> calendar.) ICU transitions have historically been quite painless. The
> dev package is just called libicu-dev, and the API is very stable.
> Failure to keep ICU reasonably current results in important packages

I am not sure it's THAT smooth this time, see e.g.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-4-2&id=32a9c19bf79b99ae3b6cdae7ccc07499094a5603
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-4-2&id=1ce42d1001139a9168e9451dbd48a6daef95c691

Especially the latter one. (LO already has them, but I already
had them backported in earlier package versions.)
 
> like libreoffice pulling in their own ICU, which is a challenge from a
> security standpoint. I have already put ICU 53 in experimental, so most
> likely, doing this transition is just giving me the okay to upload to
> experimental and then scheduling binary NMUs of downstream packages.

I think they should at least be test-built before. But that won't help in cases
like the second one above.

Regards,

Rene