please test openoffice.org with icu 4.0 from experimental
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Hello openoffice maintainers. I have recently uploaded ICU 4.0 into
experimental and would be grateful if you could test to make sure
openoffice.org works with it. There had been a patch applied to ICU
3.6 specifically for openoffice. I was tracking the status of that
patch upstream (in ICU's bug tracking system) and found that the patch
had been rejected by ICU. Studying the situation further, it looks
like it is no longer needed by openoffice. I have not tried to
rebuild openoffice with ICU 4.0 myself and would appreciate it if
someone could test this out before ICU 4.0 goes into unstable.
Reintroducing this patch would create a binary incompatibility, so I
very much hope to avoid doing so. However, if I do, I definitely
wouldn't want to do so after ICU 4.0 went into unstable.
At this point, I am not expecting an ICU transition before the release
of lenny, but if I get word that openoffice.org works with ICU 4.0, I
may contact the release team to get their opinion.
The ICU 4.0 dev package is libicu-dev just as the 3.8 one is, so it
should not be necessary to make any changes to openoffice to build
with 4.0. Just make sure you have the experimental version of
libicu-dev installed.
Thanks!
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Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
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