Re: ICU 3.8 (boost status)
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:58:21PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> 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?
At long last, boost has cleared the jump, and you should feel free to upload
icu 3.8 now. Sorry for the long wait.
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