Re: Removal of icu-config (does your package still detect libicu)
My impression is the tests were cursory. If a package didn't FTBFS, it was
presumed to be OK. Fortunately he provided a patch, so it is all better for
postfix now. I just don't know what else might have been missed.
Scott K
On Saturday, February 16, 2019 12:47:34 PM Ondřej Surý wrote:
> The icu maintainer has properly communicated the change in the packaging for
> the packages I maintain and depend on libicu-dev (and filled RC bugs for
> it).
>
> I don’t know what has happened that postfix was missed.
>
> Ondrej
> --
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
>
> > On 16 Feb 2019, at 10:33, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote:
> >
> > Postfix uses the presence of the icu-config binary to detect if libicu is
> > available and thus if SMTPUTF8 support should be compiled in or not.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the icu package recently dropped this file, so when postfix
> > was binNMU'ed it lost SMTPUTF8 (see #921075).
> >
> > I don't know if any other packages depend on this or not, so heads-up. If
> > you maintain a package the build-depends on libicu-dev, you might want to
> > check if it's broken now.
> >
> > I've asked the icu maintainer to put it back (#922451).
> >
> > Scott K
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