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Re: icu transition?



On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:13:48PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> I'm sure you're on top of this, but it looks to me that icu and
> friends might be ready to transition again.  Is this the case?  Is a
> hint required?

> A security bug against ICU appeared, but it actually affects the
> version in testing as well.  Can ICU transition anyway?  That way I
> don't have to prepare a fix for icu 3.6.  I was planning on upload
> 3.8.1 anyway and applying to the patch to that.  I was going to do
> this as soon as ICU 3.8 transitions.

gcj-4.3, ecj, and gcc-defaults were all ready to transition last night, so a
hint was added to push them in.

Then a new version of gcj-4.3 was reuploaded without coordinating with the
release team.

We are trying to force gcj-4.3 through despite now being out of date on most
architectures; that will finally unblock openoffice.org, which is one of the
packages that has to go in together with icu.

With luck this will all be done by the next dinstall; with less luck it will
be done by the next normal britney run; with /typicall release team luck
someone will do an unannounced 0-day NMU openoffice.org and we'll be waiting
for another month.

But yes, I've adjusted the state on the icu security bug so that it doesn't
block things; so hopefully we can get this all cleared up in the next day or
two, and then you (and the boost maintainers as well) can get back to
ordinary bugfixing.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org


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