Bug#757025: transition: icu

[Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

ICU version 53 is out, and this is the latest version of ICU that will
be available before the freeze for Jesse, so this will be the only
remaining ICU transition the Jesse freeze.. (ICU does releases by the
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
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.
This has been the case in the past.

Ben file:

title = "icu";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libicu52" | .depends ~ "libicu52-dbg" | .depends ~ "libicu53" | .depends ~ "libicu53-dbg";
is_good = .depends ~ "libicu53" | .depends ~ "libicu53-dbg";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libicu52" | .depends ~ "libicu52-dbg";


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash