Re: ICU transition now or later?
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:32:52PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org> wrote:
>
> ICU 3.8 was released yesterday. I've had a "draft" release, as they
> call it, in experimental for a while. ICU 3.8 is supposed to be
> source compatible with earlier releases, but I have changed the dev
> package to icu-dev instead of putting the soname in the version
> number. I'd like to go ahead and upload 3.8 to unstable this
> weekend. This will force a library transition, but the ICU transition
> is pretty small. If I do that now, will it interfere with anything
> that's nearing completion? If so, I can wait, but if not, I'd like to
> go ahead and do that. xerces 2.8.0 is also out, and I'd just as soon
> have my first upload to unstable of xerces 2.8.0 depend on the new
> ICU. Thanks.
>
> (I know that I don't *have* to ask for permission to do a library
> transition, but I don't want to upset the apple cart if some big group
> of packages is just about ready to go....)
FYI, it will make webkit FTBFS, but that's an issue I already know and
have a patch for. And I was planning on an new upload soon anyways.
Mike
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