Bug#729531: transition: icu
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
>> 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.
ICU 52 is installed on all architectures now. Thanks!
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Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
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