ICU 3.8 (boost status)
I've been trying to monitor the boost transition in hopes of being
able to upload ICU 3.8 once it goes in. It looks like it's getting
really close. Is that correct? I'm quite eager to go ahead and get
ICU 3.8 uploaded to unstable because there are several other things
that are waiting for this to happen. In particular, I'm holding
xerces28 for ICU 3.8, and once that gets uploaded, I can work on
transitioning packages from xerces27 to xerces28 (which doesn't cause
a library transition since the two versions can coexist) and then
removing xerces27. Also, new bugs are getting reported against ICU
3.6, and it would be better if I didn't have to try to resolve them
without testing with ICU 3.8. If you think boost is going in soon and
doesn't have any more hard problems blocking it, I'll continue to
wait. Otherwise, if boost looks like it's stuck enough for ICU to
join the party, I'd like to go ahead and upload. Thoughts?
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Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
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