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Re: heads up: icu library transition in September or so



On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:10:05AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> The ICU upstream developers are expecting to release ICU 3.8 in
> September.  ICU is a reverse dependency of both boost and
> openoffice.org.  I'm planning uploading an alpha release to
> experimental and alerting the maintainers of the reverse
> dependencies.  I will, of course, coordinate any transition with the
> release team before uploading to unstable.  We've done ICU transitions
> before, and they're pretty small and painless, but they're big enough
> that I feel like I want to keep the release team in the loop.  I'll
> check with you before uploading to unstable unless you tell me that I
> don't need to.  Thanks.

Well, boost and OOo are both currently in a horrible state wrt testing
migration; it would be nice to not have them both in a horrible state
/together/ via icu.

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