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Bug#729531: transition: icu



Control: tags -1 confirmed

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 16:41:58 -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> I'd like to upgrade the version of ICU from 4.8 to 52.  They changed
> their version numbering scheme essentially multiplying everything by 10.
> We skipped a few versions (49, 50, 51) because of the freeze before
> wheezy.  This is the first major version to be released since Wheezy.
> (A major ICU version is released every six months.)  ICU 52 should be
> source compatible but not binary compile with ICU 4.8.  Many bugs have
> been fixed since ICU 4.8.  I have basically done a library transition
> approximately every other ICU version, and they have all gone smoothly
> up to this point.  The dev package name is versionless (libicu-dev) so
> this transition should be able to be done with just a forced rebuild of
> ICU's reverse dependencies.
> 
Please go ahead, and let us know when icu 52 is installed on all archs
so we can start the rebuilds.

Thanks,
Julien

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