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Re: ICU 3.8 (boost status)



On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:06:24AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

that's great! thank you :)

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