Re: anyone interested in adopting ICU?
* Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org> schrieb:
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> I'm looking for someone who might like to take over the icu package.
> This is ICU4C (C/C++), not to be confused with ICU4J (Java), which is a
> separate package maintained by someone else. ICU is "International
> Components for Unicode".
If it's not urgent, I'd like to take the job (need some time to set
up an recent Debian build machinery again, as I didn't use it for
almost a year now, and I'm little bit busy right now :().
ICU4C is a little bit tricky case, as it tends to break ABI (sometimes
even API) between releases, sometimes even semantic changes (at least
had been the case in recent years). So I'd go for a full MVCc installation
(IMHO better than Gentoo's slotting + revdep-rebuild approach ;-p).
I'll yet have to pull it through my own embedded QM process and
build machinery first, so we'll also get crosscompile fixups etc
as a buy-product here ;-)
cu
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