Bug#757025: transition: icu
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On 04/08/14 19:53, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 11:59:50AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>> calendar.) ICU transitions have historically been quite painless. The
>> dev package is just called libicu-dev, and the API is very stable.
>> Failure to keep ICU reasonably current results in important packages
>
> I am not sure it's THAT smooth this time, see e.g.
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-4-2&id=32a9c19bf79b99ae3b6cdae7ccc07499094a5603
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-4-2&id=1ce42d1001139a9168e9451dbd48a6daef95c691
>
> Especially the latter one. (LO already has them, but I already
> had them backported in earlier package versions.)
>
>> like libreoffice pulling in their own ICU, which is a challenge from a
>> security standpoint. I have already put ICU 53 in experimental, so most
>> likely, doing this transition is just giving me the okay to upload to
>> experimental and then scheduling binary NMUs of downstream packages.
>
> I think they should at least be test-built before. But that won't help in cases
> like the second one above.
A summary of the API/ABI changes would be nice, as well as a list of packages
that build fine against the new icu and a list of packages that fail
(accompanied by bug reports and possibly patches if you really want this to
happen for jessie).
Emilio
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