Bug#894159: transition: icu

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 23/04/18 21:40, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:27 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
> <pochu@debian.org> wrote:
>> On 23/04/18 21:19, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
>>>  As I remember, 99% of the FTBFS reasons were the icu-config removal,
>>> others are the dependent package bugs I've already mentioned. I do not
>>> recall any API change. In short, there are fifteen packages FTBFS and
>>> all is due to the icu-config removal. This is true for the date of my
>>> previous mail. There were several dependent packages upload since
>>> then, but I think the situation remained the same.
>>
>> In that case I'm ok with removing icu-config, but please don't entangle that
>> with the SONAME bump. That is, reintroduce icu-config so we can have an easy
>> transition, and once the transition is finished, then you are free to drop
>> icu-config. Sounds good?
>  I do agree and open to do an other compilation test of the dependent
> packages with icu-config being available.

Thanks. Let me know how that goes, and I'll ack this transition as soon as possible.

Cheers,
Emilio