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....) -- Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
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