Bug#628529: transition: ICU transition (4.4 -> 4.8)

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

block 628529 with 630517
kthxbye

On 05/29/2011 10:19 PM, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>I'd like to schedule a transition for ICU from 4.4 to 4.8.  In the past
>several ICU transitions, it has been sufficient to do a binary NMU for
>each reverse dependency, and there's little reason to believe that this
>time should be any different.  There are a few API changes, but they are
>mostly for interfaces that have been deprecated for a long time, and
>this is pretty much comparable to earlier ICU releases.  I will wait to
>upload ICU to unstable until I get an okay from the release team and
>until I hear from openoffice.org maintainers.
>
This can't really happen as long as icu itself FTBFS on one of the
release architectures, so marking the corresponding bug as a blocker.

Cheers,
Julien